2011/7/5 Jun Ishiduka <ishizuka....@po.ntts.co.jp>: > >> What about using backupStartPoint to check whether this recovery >> started from the backup or not? > > No, postgres can check whether this recovery started from the backup > or not, but can not check whether standby server or master (got backup > from).
Oh, right. We cannot distinguish the following two cases just by using minRecoveryPoint and backupStartPoint. * The standby starts from the backup taken from the standby * The standby starts after it crashes during recovering from the backup taken from the master As you proposed, adding new field which stores the backup end location taken from minRecoveryPoint, into pg_control sounds good idea. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers