Fujii Masao wrote: > When a crash occurs before calling pg_stop_backup(), > the subsequent crash recovery causes the FATAL error > and outputs the following HINT message. > > If you are not restoring from a backup, try removing the file > \"%s/backup_label\"." > > I wonder why backup_label isn't automatically removed > in normal crash recovery case. Is this for the fail-safe > protection; prevent admin from restoring from a backup > wrongly without creating recovery.conf? Or another? > > If that's intentional, a clusterware for shared disk > failover system should remove backup_label whenever > doing failover. Otherwise, when a crash occurs during > online-backup, the failover would fail.
I do not know if there is a good reason why the server does not ignore backup_label if recovery.conf is not present. But as it is, any failover system should definitely remove backup_label. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
