> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: >>> If the "pg_ctl promote" patch will have been committed, I recommend that >>> the C function should send the signal to the startup process rather than >>> creating the trigger file. Because the trigger file is checked every for 5s, >>> which would lengthen the failover time by an average 2.5s. >> >> Ok, probably I could make the function smart enough to signal or not >> by looking at the PostgreSQL version. >> >> BTW is it possible to export following variable in xlog.c? >> >> static char *TriggerFile = NULL; >> >> That would make coding of the C function lot easier. > > If you change the function so that it sends the signal or call > system("pg_ctl promote"), exporting that variable seems to > be unnecessary. Because pg_ctl promote can promote > the server even if trigger_file is not supplied. You don't need > to check whether trigger_file is set or not, in the C function.
True. BTW for 9.0, perhaps copy&paste parseRecoveryCommandFileLine() from xlog.c into the C function is the only way to go. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers