Re: HS/SR and smart shutdown

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>

Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-03-04T15:56:26Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There is no post about this for over a month. Can I remove this
>>> from TODO item of SR for 9.0? Thought? Objection?
>>>
>>
>> Does smart shutdown still fail to shut down a slave?
>
> Yes. More precisely, smart shutdown during recovery does not complete
> until recovery ends.

Well, I don't think we should let smart shutdown just never terminate
when standby_mode = on.  That's really a minefield for the unwary.  I
think we either need to make it work, or somehow give the user an
error that says "try a different shutdown mode".

...Robert