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Re: basic_archive lost archive_directory

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, Олег Самойлов <splarv@ya.ru>, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Date: 2026-02-23T21:38:47Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 03:14:15PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:06:25AM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> As I mentioned upthread, IMHO we should simply remove the existence check
>> from the GUC check hook.  basic_archive must already be written to handle
>> the archive directory disappearing at any moment, so we should be able to
>> rely on it without the extra stat().
> 
> Concretely, like the attached.

Any thoughts?  I'll wait another week or so, but then will proceed with
committing/back-patching this.

-- 
nathan

Commits

  1. basic_archive: Allow archive directory to be missing at startup.