Re: Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

Simon Riggs wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:41 -0500, Jason DiCioccio wrote:
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>> Now, realize that ..0022 was not in the archive directory, and
>>actually is still not. However, it seems to be requiring it. Do I
>>have to wait for this log to be archived?
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>Yes.
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>>Is there a way that I can
>>force the archival of this WAL log?
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>No, other than write lots of stuff to a table.
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>Straight answers, but I hope that helps.
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>In retrospect, there is a slight timing error between end backup and
>archival of next WAL log. The first-release design for PITR didn't fully
>cover lower traffic situations, so in those cases the timing error
>becomes noticeable. You're not the first to observe this, though only by
>about a month.
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>I'm considering options for the next release, since major change seems
>to be required to the basic xlog handling mechanisms.
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If postgres is trying to read an archive log file which was not yet
generated, why cant it read from the
transaction log ? I mean the current last transaction log before you
start the restoration process, wouldnt
that work ? I tried restore couple of time on postgres 8 it didnt give
me this error, can anyone tell me how to
reproduce this error, we are planning to move to 8.0 soon and I will be
using online backups .

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>Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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