Re: Seeking datacenter PITR backup suggestions

[Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 21:04 -0500, Decibel! wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:54:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> > Perhaps the docs are not sufficiently clear on the point?
> 
> Yeah... I think that's a big gotcha waiting to smack someone. I'd
> actually make the mention <strong> so that hopefully no one can miss
> it... or do we have an official method for putting warnings in the docs?
> 
> "Because WAL segment files are renamed and not re-created from scratch,
> it is critical that the archive command actually copy files, not move
> or hard-link them."

I'll shortly be writing a doc patch to clarify a few points and to
explain new possibilities, such as Koichi Suzuki's work.

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  Simon Riggs
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