Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > > OK, can you go through the reasons why pg_stop_backup would not > > complete? > > pg_stop_backup() doesn't complete until all the WAL segments needed to > restore from the backup are archived. If archive_command is failing, > that never happens.
Yes, very old behavior allowed people to think they had a full backup when the WAL files needed were not all archived, which was a bad thing. Thankfully no one reported catastrophic failure from the old behavior. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
