Re: Backups from the standby (Incrementally Updated Backups), open item

On 2010-08-24 9:04 PM +0300, Josh Berkus wrote:
> ... and my viewpoint is that the procedure described should be *cut*
> from the official docs and put on the Wiki, with warnings.  It's simply
> far too hackish and dependant on DBA understanding of PostgreSQL
> internals to belong in the main docs.
>
> In 9.1 we'll probably have some machinery to make taking snapshots of
> the standby more reliable (like running pg_start_backup on the master),
> and then that procedure will belong in the main docs.

Is this method not reliable then?  Can something go wrong even if the 
user does exactly what the documentation says?


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja