Re: Archiver behavior at shutdown

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 17:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> then a subsequent postmaster start could initiate a second archiver
>>> process which would cause issues with whatever the first archiver is
>>> doing.
>> 
>> That's a problem that the archiver itself should fix (perhaps it needs
>> its own lockfile). 

> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00920.php

I thought that sounded familiar ;-).  What was the outcome of that
discussion?  No patch for this ever got applied AFAICS.  The patch
as posted had a few issues, per the thread, and I don't see a followup
version.  (The alleged replacement patch did something else entirely.)
        regards, tom lane