Re: XLogArchivingActive

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: XLogArchivingActive
Date: 2006-05-27 11:51:50
Message-ID: 44783D56.3000405@pse-consulting.de
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>
> Also, regarding needing to place an archiver command in
> pg_start_backup_online, another option would be to depend on the
> filesystem backup to copy the WAL files, and just let them pile up in
> pg_xlog until pg_stop_backup_online. Of course, that would require a
> two-step filesystem copy, since you'd need to first copy everything in
> $PGDATA, and then copy $PGDATA/pg_xlog after you have that.

Sounds fine. This solves the problem to insure that all required wal
files are actually copied to the wal archive.

Regards,
Andreas

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