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doc: Mention archive_command failure handling on signals
The behavior is similar to restore_command, which was already documented for the restore part, but not the archive part. Author: Benoit Lobréau Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPE8EZ7akCzc1hWohA4AcbmKtHh9rcWAB5MStOeZD2+9jC+hLQ@mail.gmail.com
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it will try again periodically until it succeeds.
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When the archive command is terminated by a signal (other than
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<systemitem>SIGTERM</systemitem> that is used as part of a server
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shutdown) or an error by the shell with an exit status greater than
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125 (such as command not found), the archiver process aborts and gets
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restarted by the postmaster. In such cases, the failure is
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not reported in <xref linkend="pg-stat-archiver-view"/>.
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</para>
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The archive command should generally be designed to refuse to overwrite
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any pre-existing archive file. This is an important safety feature to

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