On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Simon Riggs" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Just ignore 00000001. Recovery will work fine even if absent. Don't > > ignore all history files though, just that one. Hmmm, come to think of > > it, why is it requesting it at all? We should just skip that request. > > No, because then people would misdesign their recovery scripts to not > be able to deal with not finding a history file. As things are, they > will certainly be exposed to that case in any testing they do. If we > optimize this call away, then they won't see the case until they're in > very deep doo-doo. Main reason for suggesting this is that there is already code to optimize the call away in one place, but not in another, which seems strange either way. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
