Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > OK, can you go through the reasons why pg_stop_backup would not
> > complete?
>
> pg_stop_backup() doesn't complete until all the WAL segments needed to
> restore from the backup are archived. If archive_command is failing,
> that never happens.
Yes, very old behavior allowed people to think they had a full backup
when the WAL files needed were not all archived, which was a bad thing.
Thankfully no one reported catastrophic failure from the old behavior.
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