At what stage you will apply the WAL generated in between the START/STOP backup.
In this design, we are not touching any WAL related code. The WAL files will get copied with each backup either full or incremental. And thus, the last incremental backup will have the final WAL files which will be copied as-is in the combined full-backup and they will get apply automatically if that the data directory is used to start the server.
Ok, so you keep all the WAL files since the first backup, right?
The WAL files will anyway be copied while taking a backup (full or incremental), but only last incremental backup's WAL files are copied to the combined synthetic full backup.
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Ibrar Ahmed
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Jeevan Chalke Technical Architect, Product Development EnterpriseDB Corporation
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Ibrar Ahmed
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Jeevan Chalke Technical Architect, Product Development EnterpriseDB Corporation