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Re: Skip checkpoint on promoting from streaming replication

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, masao.fujii@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-24T18:54:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 24 January 2013 17:44, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

>> At replay, an end-of-recovery record should be a signal to the hot standby
>> mechanism that there are no transactions running in the master at that
>> point, same as a shutdown checkpoint.
>
> I had a reason why I didn't do that, but it seems to have slipped my mind.
>
> If I can't remember, I'll add it.

I think it was simply to keep things simple and avoid bugs in this release.

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