Re: [HACKERS]odd output in restore mode

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>>> "Heikki Linnakangas" <[email protected]> wrote:         
>>> We really need a more reliable way of detecting that a file has been
>>> fully copied.     
>>  
>> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
>> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
>> archive location when the copy is successfully completed.  I think
>> that this even works on Windows.  Could that just be documented as a
>> strong recommendation for the archive script?
> 
> Needs testing at least. If it does in fact work then we can just adjust 
> the docs and be done 

Yeah.

> - or maybe provide a .bat file or perl script that 
> would work as na archive_command on Windows.

We're not talking about archive_command. We're talking about the thing 
that copies files to the directory that pg_standby polls.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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