Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:05, Tom Lane wrote: >> In the context of online backup operations, that advice isn't relevant >> anymore ...
> Really, is this an 8.0 thing then, that I can make file system backups > and expect them to be coherent, or did I misunderhear what you meant and > this has to do with some other issue I'm not getting? No, it means that when doing PITR stuff you don't actually care that your base backup isn't consistent --- you expect WAL replay to fix it. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/backup-online.html regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]