Re: FW: Setting up of PITR system.

"Andy Shellam" <andy.shellam@mailnetwork.co.uk> writes:
> The DOCs say that filenames numerically less than the WAL record that
> pg_stop_backup() suggests can be removed. Will an alphabetical sorting
> be different from numerically sorted filename ?

If you're worried about that, try "LANG=C ls ..." to make sure the
sorting is done in C locale.  I don't know of any locales that would
sort hex numbers differently from C, but maybe there are some.

            regards, tom lane