On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 8/24/10 12:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikk...@cs.helsinki.fi> writes: >>> Is this method not reliable then? Can something go wrong even if the >>> user does exactly what the documentation says? >> >> It is not. This whole discussion started from somebody reporting that >> it didn't work. > > Again, given that this is a method which is (a) fairly minority-need, > and (b) not at all tested in the field, I do not think it belongs in the > main docs. Let's put it on the wiki and blog about it, and AFTER we've > collected bug reports and have something relatively bulletproof for 9.1, > THEN we put it in the main docs. > > We really shouldn't have anything in the main docs related to backup > which isn't 100% tested.
Yeah. This whole procedure sounds pretty flakey to me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
