Re: [HACKERS] Broken hint bits (freeze)

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:50:29AM +0300, Sergey Burladyan wrote:
> 20 июн. 2017 г. 1:21 пользователь "Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> написал: 
> 
> 
>     We are saying that Log-Shipping should match "Latest checkpoint
>     location", but the WAL for that will not be sent to the standby, so it
>     will not match, but that is OK since the only thing in the non-shipped
>     WAL file is the checkpoint record.  How should we modify the wording on
>     this?
> 
> 
> I am afraid that without this checkpoint record standby cannot make
> restartpoint
> and without restartpoint it does not sync shared buffers into disk at
> shutdown. 

Uh, as I understand it the rsync is going to copy the missing WAL file
from the new master to the standby, right, and I think pg_controldata
too, so it should be fine.  Have you tested to see if it fails?

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