> I will provide a patch which can exeute pg_start/stop_backup
> including to solve above comment and conditions in next stage.
> Then please review.
done.
* Procedure
1. Call pg_start_backup('x') on the standby.
2. Take a backup of the data dir.
3. Call pg_stop_backup() on the standby.
4. Copy the control file on the standby to the backup.
5. Check whether the control file is status during hot standby with pg_controldata.
-> If the standby promote between 3. and 4., the backup can not recovery.
-> pg_control is that "Minimum recovery ending location" is equals 0/0.
-> backup-end record is not written.
* Not correspond yet
* full_page_write = off
-> If the primary is "full_page_write = off", archive recovery may not act
normally. Therefore the standby may need to check whether "full_page_write
= off" to WAL.
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