Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Fujii Masao wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:3f0b79eb1003012220x358e072atc7e3f322d1d24466@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><pre
wrap="">OnFri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Bruce Momjian <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us"><bruce@momjian.us></a>wrote: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Postgres
9.0will be the first release to mention /bin/true as a way of
 
turning off archiving in extraordinary circumstances:

       <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html">http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/runtime-config-wal.html</a>
 </pre></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Setting archive_mode to a command that does nothing but return
true,e.g. /bin/true,   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
 
"return true" seems ambiguous for me. How about writing clearly
"return a zero exit status" instead? </pre></blockquote><br /> This is a good catch, and I have a work in progress
updateto that doc section that fixes that wording, as well as rearranging the recent additions a bit.  Really that
whole"/bin/true" big needs to go after the example.  A very brief intro to what "exit status" means on various
platformsmight be in order too.  I'm adjusting all that to read better, once I'm happy with it I'll submit a doc patch
inthe next week or two with the final result.<br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
 
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