Re: backup_label and server start

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 15:04 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >> If somebody stops the postmaster while an online backup is
> >> in progress, there is no warning or nothing. Only the server
> >> will fail to restart.
> > 
> > Well, it seems best not to do this. There is always a need
> > for a careful
> > procedure to manually shutdown a live server, interlocking with other
> > applications. ISTM like a manual procedure will resolve this for you.
> 
> You're arguing that there *should* be a manual intervention
> if a server was shutdown while a backup was active.

Shutting down the server was a manual action, so what is wrong in a
manual action to recover from that mistake?

If the shutdown was automatic, then it needs to be properly scheduled so
automatic actions do not conflict with one another.

--  Simon Riggs 2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com