Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>
>>Patch included to implement xlog switching, using an xlog record
>>"processing instruction" and forcibly moving xlog pointers.
>>
>>1. Happens automatically on pg_stop_backup()
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>
> Oh - so it will not be possible to do an online backup
> _without_ forcing a WAL switch any more?
Well, previously, you would have always had to simulate a wal switch, by
working out which is the current wal file and copying that. Otherwise
your online backup wouldn't be complete.
What Simon is describing sounds like a big step forward from that
situation. It should let me delete half the code in my pitr
backup/failover scripts. Definitely a Good Thing.
> Laurenz Albe
Tim