Re: [Patch] pg_rewind: options to use restore_command from recovery.conf or command line

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Alexey Kondratov <a.kondratov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>, Liudmila Mantrova <l.mantrova@postgrespro.ru>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, vladimirlesk@yandex-team.ru, dsarafan@yandex-team.ru
Date: 2020-06-06T17:48:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Move frontend-side archive APIs from src/common/ to src/fe_utils/

  2. Add -c/--restore-target-wal to pg_rewind

  3. Move routine definitions of xlogarchive.c to a new header file

  4. Move routine building restore_command to src/common/

  5. Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf

On 2020-03-31 08:48, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 05:00:01PM +0300, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
>> What do think about adding following sanity check into xlogarchive.c?
>>
>> +#ifdef FRONTEND
>> +#error "This file is not expected to be compiled for frontend code"
>> +#endif
>>
>> It would prevent someone from adding typedefs and any other common
>> definitions into xlogarchive.h in the future, leading to the accidental
>> inclusion of both xlogarchive.h and fe_archive.h in the same time.
> I don't see much the point as this would fail to compile anyway, and
> that's not project-style.  Note that we have already a clear
> separation here between the backend and the frontend code here as
> xlogarchive.h is backend-only and fe_archive.h is frontend-only.

Why is fe_archive.c in src/common/ and not in src/fe_utils/?  It is not 
"common" to frontend and backend.

It actually defines functions that clash with functions in the backend, 
so this seems doubly wrong.

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