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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2010-04-29 21:49:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2010-04-29 21:49:03 +0000 |
| commit | 69f7a4d8e322f7f93d1c6d91c7eabd9d5925a401 (patch) | |
| tree | 535568f07481358e3377b2f608e9dba6707529e5 /doc/src | |
| parent | f0488bd57c3745b5dbed80e884ee5452e77314c9 (diff) | |
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Adjust error checks in pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup to make it possible
to perform a backup without archive_mode being enabled. This gives up some
user-error protection in order to improve usefulness for streaming-replication
scenarios. Per discussion.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index 9055517af54..f67b778a547 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.153 2010/04/28 16:10:39 heikki Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.154 2010/04/29 21:49:03 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="backup"> <title>Backup and Restore</title> @@ -779,6 +779,7 @@ SELECT pg_stop_backup(); Once the WAL segment files active during the backup are archived, you are done. The file identified by <function>pg_stop_backup</>'s result is the last segment that is required to form a complete set of backup files. + If <varname>archive_mode</> is enabled, <function>pg_stop_backup</> does not return until the last segment has been archived. Archiving of these files happens automatically since you have |