On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > The fundamental problem is that by definition, a base backup is completely > indistinguishable from the data directory in the original server. Or is it? > We recommend that you exclude the files under pg_xlog from the backup. So we > could create a "pg_xlog/just_kidding" file along with backup_label. When > starting recovery, if just_kidding exists, we can assume that we're doing > crash recovery and ignore backup_label.
I think you'll find that it's completely impossible to make this work reliably given all of the ways people may choose to make a backup. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
