Re: Re: pg v. 8.4.5 misses objects and data after restoring from backup using wal

On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Imre Oolberg wrote:

> But http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/continuous-archiving.html suggests to use tar on rsync and i guess
thatPostgreSQL recovery with wal files takes care of these inconsistencies that are created during copying filesystem,
right?

Yes, but the database is recovered to the consistent state as of the pg_start_backup command, as I pointed out to you
before.Results of transactions that commit after the pg_start_backup command will not be in the backed up database. 

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