Re: Warm standby recovery failure

Jaume Sabater <jsabater@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> We probably should add a caution about this to the manual's discussion
>> of how to write archiving scripts.

> I presume you mean the copy/transfer process did not do its job
> correctly, Tom. Therefore, I would advise using a script that compares
> the MD5/SHA1 sums of the origin and destination files and retries the
> copy/transfer process before returning an exit status to the server
> (archive_command call). Do you think this would suffice?

That seems like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.  The problem as
I saw it was that the script was probably simply not checking for
an error result from 'cp'.

            regards, tom lane