Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Basic Recovery Control functions for use in Hot Standby. Pause,

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> If recovery target is set to before its consistent, ie. before
> minRecoveryPoint, we should throw an error before recovery even starts. I'm
> not sure if we check that at the moment.

I don't see how you could check that anyway.  How do you know where
you're going to see the given XID/timestamp/named restore point until
you actually get there?

> Not sure what to to do recovery target is beyond minRecoveryPoint and
> pause_at_recovery_target=true, but the server hasn't been opened for hot
> standby yet (because it hasn't seen a running-xacts record yet). I agree
> it's pretty useless and annoying to stop there.

I think the reasonable options are "enter normal running" and "shut down".

In any event, it sounds like someone needs to fix this, and I don't
know enough to do it.  Can you or Fujii Masao do it?

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