On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@mail.com> wrote:
> wd wrote:
>
>> the time is between backup start and stop.
>
> That is the problem -- until the point where pg_stop_backup() was
> run PostgreSQL can't be sure of having a consistent database. It is
> waiting from enough WAL to get it there. My practice is always to
> keep the last two base backups and all WAL from the start of the
> earlier one to current. If I want to recover to a point in time
> which was during a backup, I use the previous base backup, which is
> complete and usable.
>
> It does seem that there is an opportunity here to make it more
> clear what is happening.
It seems like the code is already there to throw an error, it is just
that hot_standby=on somehow suppresses it during this window.
Cheers,
Jeff