Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So the situation is: > > - You must only stop recovery at a point in time (in the logs) after the > > backup had completed. > > Right. > > > No way to enforce that currently, apart from procedurally. Not exactly > > frequent, so I think I just document that and move on, eh? > > The procedure that generates a backup has got to be responsible for > recording both the start and stop times. If it does not do so then > it's fatally flawed. (Note also that you had better be careful to get > the time as seen on the server machine's clock ... this could be a nasty > gotcha if the backup is run on a different machine, such as an NFS > server.)
OK, but procedurally, how do you correlate the start/stop time of the tar backup with the WAL numeric file names? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
