On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 07:31 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:49:44PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:29 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > > This could be implemented by a "pass-through" restore_command,
> > > that calls pg_standby, and does the custom action when pg_standby
> > > returns successfully.
> >
> > Yes, that's the preferred route for most cases.
> >
> > pg_standby was designed to be customisable, so if it works for
> > Chris, thats OK.
> >
> > After some mulling on this, I'm not sure we need to include this in
> > pg_standby however. If we did we'd end up having before/after
> > commands and retry options etc.
>
> Would those be good things to have as a whole package?
I think the answer is we already do. It's called bash.
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Simon Riggs
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