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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2008-12-15 22:08:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2008-12-15 22:08:35 +0000 |
| commit | 30c6202a2a3f2319c14d0fed58a42d7a497df7ba (patch) | |
| tree | 0c78963b201e384316e242376bb9e6f7e2cd74f6 | |
| parent | eb88e7ee2c43772e69011bffc6852b8dec9e0b9b (diff) | |
Add documentation that pg_standby sleeps on Win32 because of 'copy' behavior.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml index 9973f029026..2b8aad7824d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml,v 2.5 2008/05/07 18:48:40 alvherre Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml,v 2.6 2008/12/15 22:08:35 momjian Exp $ --> <sect1 id="pgstandby"> <title>pg_standby</title> @@ -295,7 +295,16 @@ restore_command = 'pg_standby -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 ...\archive %f %p </itemizedlist> <para> - Since the Windows example uses <literal>copy</> at both ends, either + The <literal>copy</> command on Windows sets the final file size + before the file is completely copied, which would ordinarly confuse + <application>pg_standby</application>. Therefore + <application>pg_standby</application> waits <literal>sleeptime</> + seconds once it sees the proper file size. GNUWin32's <literal>cp</> + sets the file size only after the file copy is complete. + </para> + + <para> + Using the Since the Windows example uses <literal>copy</> at both ends, either or both servers might be accessing the archive directory across the network. </para> |