Re: Re: BUG #5602: Recovering from Hot-Standby file backup leads to the currupted indexes

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:28 -0700, valgog wrote:
>> It was done as documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/backup-incremental-updated.html

> The procedure used does differ from that documented. However, IMHO the
> procedure *documented* is *not* safe and could lead to corrupt indexes
> in the way described, since the last recovered point might be mid-way
> between two halves of an index split record, which will never be
> corrected during HS.

Hm, I was looking at that and thinking it seemed unsafe for entirely
different reasons.  But if you didn't write it, who did?

            regards, tom lane