On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:39:30PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 13:06 Michael Paquier, <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote: >> Yeah, it is safer to assume that it is the responsability of the >> backup tool to ensure that because it could be possible that a host is >> unplugged just after taking a backup, and having Postgres do this work >> at the beginning of archive recovery would not help in most cases. > > Let's document that assumption in the docs for pg_basebackup and the file > system copy based replica creation docs. With a reference to initdb's > datadir sync option.
Do you have any suggestion about that, in the shape of a patch perhaps?
I'll try to get to that, but I have some other docs patches outstanding that I'd like to resolve first.