On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:19, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 18:00, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 17:43, Heikki Linnakangas
>>> <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>>> On 02.02.2011 16:36, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When running pg_basebackup with -x to include all transaction log, the
>>>>> server will still throw a warning about xlog archiving if it's not
>>>>> enabled - that is completely irrelevant since pg_basebackup has
>>>>> included it already (and if it was gone, the base backup step itself
>>>>> will fail - actual error and not warning).
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch moves the warning from do_pg_base_backup to pg_base_backup,
>>>>> so it still shows when using the explicit function calls, but goes
>>>>> away when using pg_basebackup.
>>>>
>>>> For the sake of consistency, how about moving the "pg_stop_backup complete,
>>>> all required WAL segments have been archived" notice too?
>>>
>>> Well, it goes out as a NOTICE, so by default it doesn't show.. But
>>> yeah, for code-consistency it makes sense. Like so, then.
>>
>> Thinking some more about it, I realized this is not going to be enough
>> - we need to be able to turn off the waiting for WAL segment as well,
>> in the case when you're streaming the log. Thus, it needs to be
>> controllable from the backup client, and we can't just assume the
>> default is ok.
>>
>> Attached is an updated patch that adds a NOWAIT option to BASE_BACKUP,
>> that turns off the waiting. If it's set, it also doesn't warn about
>> not being able to wait in the case when there is nothing to wait for,
>> so this is a replacement for the previous patch.
>
> Applied.

Back to your original complaint. When -x option is specified, pg_basebackup
should use NOWAIT option in BASE_BACKUP command to send to the server?

Regards,

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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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