On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> A look at the code shows that the archiver only notices SIGHUP once >> per outer loop, so the change would only take effect once you catch up, >> which is not going to help much in this case. Possibly we should change >> it to check for SIGHUP after each archive_command execution. >> > > I never considered this a really important issue to sort out because I tell > everybody it's unwise to put something complicated directly into > archive_command. Much better to call a script that gets passed %f/%p, then > let that script do all the work; don't even have to touch the server config > if you need to fix something then. The lack of error checking that you get > when just writing some shell commands directly in the archive_command itself > horrifies me in a production environment. > > -- > Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD > PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support > greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.2ndQuadrant.us Thanks Greg, that's a good idea. I'll revise that series of commands into a script, and add some error handling as you suggest. Cheers, Bricklen -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
