Jaume Sabater <jsabater@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> We probably should add a caution about this to the manual's discussion >> of how to write archiving scripts. > I presume you mean the copy/transfer process did not do its job > correctly, Tom. Therefore, I would advise using a script that compares > the MD5/SHA1 sums of the origin and destination files and retries the > copy/transfer process before returning an exit status to the server > (archive_command call). Do you think this would suffice? That seems like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly. The problem as I saw it was that the script was probably simply not checking for an error result from 'cp'. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
