pgman wrote:
> I figured that part of the goal of PITR was that you could recover from
> just the tar backup and archived WAL files --- using the pg_xlog
> contents is nice, but not something we can require.
>
> I understood the last missing WAL log would cause missing information,
> but not that it would make the tar backup unusable.
>
> It would be nice if we could force a new WAL file on pg_stop_backup()
> and archive the WAL file needed to match the tar file. How hard would
> that be?
Added to TODO:
* Force archiving of partially-full WAL files when pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
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