| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "George Wilk" <gwilk(at)ellacoya(dot)com>, "Tom Arthurs" <tarthurs(at)jobflash(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: archive_command does not execute |
| Date: | 2007-06-19 17:27:32 |
| Message-ID: | 4677CBB3.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov |
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>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:16 AM, in message <46780175(dot)3040207(at)jobflash(dot)com>,
Tom Arthurs <tarthurs(at)jobflash(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Looks like you are expecting the archive command to run when you shut
> down the data base. It won't. It only runs when the xlog gets full and
> the system needs to recycle to a new logfile.
If you need to force a WAL file to test your backup process, try running
something like:
select pg_switch_xlog();
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-BACKUP-TABLE
-Kevin
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