Re: Small fixes about backup history file in doc and pg_standby

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While looking into the backup and recovery code, I found small documentation bugs.
> The documatation says that the backup history files can be requested for recovery,
> but it's not used by the system and not requested anymore since PG 9.0
> (commit 06f82b29616cd9effcaefd99c6b6e2e80697482f) and never be requested.
>
> Attached patch (doc_backup_history_file.patch) corrects the description about this.

Pushed. Thanks!

> In addition, the current pg_standby still can handle a backup history file that are
> never requested. It is harmless but unnecessary code. Another attached patch
> (pg_standby.patch) removes this part of code.

Since this is not bug fix, let's discuss this in 12dev cycle.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao