| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_basebackup from cascading standby after timeline switch |
| Date: | 2012-12-17 16:58:11 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEyZzSwAKnHZpqc2Pjo1RC0V-EAv8LYPcuvm1W-kZcrsfA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm not happy with the fact that we just ignore the problem in a backup
>> taken from a standby, silently giving the user a backup that won't start
>> up. Why not include the timeline history file in the backup?
>
> +1. I was not aware that we weren't doing that --- it seems pretty
> foolish, especially since as you say they're tiny.
Yeah, +1. That should probably have been a part of the whole
"basebackup from slave" patch, so it can probably be considered a
back-patchable bugfix in itself, no?
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Magnus Hagander
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