From: | Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> |
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To: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Cc: | "Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia(at)l00-bugdead-prods(dot)de> |
Subject: | Re: trigger run of archive_command? |
Date: | 2008-01-16 10:21:54 |
Message-ID: | 20080116112154.574b242d@iridium.home |
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Hello,
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:39:34 +0100 Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Thomas Karcher <thkarcher(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
> >
> > > this one is still open when I run pg_stop_backup(), so I want to trigger
> > > the archive_command to be sure that I don't miss anything.
> >
> > I guess what you want is pg_switch_xlog() (see
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-admin.html)
> this is exactly what I am looking for
> > which became available with PG 8.2 ...
> unfortunately right now I am stuck to PG 8.1.4.
> I hope I can manage to upgrade without too much hassle, it seems meanwhile I
> have to use my workaround.
a very rude hack is to produce enough changes so that PG will rotate
the logfile anyway:
CHECKPOINT;
CREATE TABLE xlog_switch AS SELECT
'0123456789ABCDE'::VARCHAR FROM generate_series(1,300000);
DROP TABLE xlog_switch;
This is a lot of overhead, but it does the job.
Kind regards
--
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
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