Commit 30c6202a authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Add documentation that pg_standby sleeps on Win32 because of 'copy' behavior.

parent eb88e7ee
<!-- $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"> <sect1 id="pgstandby">
<title>pg_standby</title> <title>pg_standby</title>
...@@ -295,7 +295,16 @@ restore_command = 'pg_standby -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 ...\archive %f %p ...@@ -295,7 +295,16 @@ restore_command = 'pg_standby -d -s 5 -t C:\pgsql.trigger.5442 ...\archive %f %p
</itemizedlist> </itemizedlist>
<para> <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 or both servers might be accessing the archive directory across the
network. network.
</para> </para>
......
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment