Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early

On 2021-Aug-23, Bossart, Nathan wrote:

> Hm.  My expectation would be that if there are no registrations, we
> cannot create .ready files for the flushed segments.  The scenario
> where I can see that happening is when a record gets flushed to disk
> prior to registration.  In that case, we'll still eventually register
> the record and wake up the WAL writer process, which will take care of
> creating the .ready files that were missed earlier.  Is there another
> case you are thinking of where we could miss registration for a cross-
> segment record altogether?

I'm thinking of the case where no record cross segment boundaries ever.

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