> > > I'm interested in the "incrementally updated backups" scenario > > described in section 25.6 of the Postgres 9 documentation. I've > > configured streaming replication for my warm standby server. > > > > Step 2 in this procedure is to note?pg_last_xlog_replay_location at > > the end of the backup. However it seems like this requires hot standby > > to be configured; otherwise there is no way of connecting to the > > standby machine to make the required query. That does not seem clear > > from the documentation. Is there a way to get this without using hot > > standby? > > That section has been removed from the current 9.0 docs because we are > unsure it works.
Is the feature (or the documentation) still being worked on, or is pg_dump the only way to take a backup of a warm standby while the database is running? Regards Mikko
