Re: [DOCS] Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

2006-03-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 17:12, Tom Lane wrote: > "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about the larger suggested change of breaking that section into > > three more granular subsections? I could see commentary being > > slightly more helpful for each. > > No particular opin

Re: [DOCS] Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

2006-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about the larger suggested change of breaking that section into > three more granular subsections? I could see commentary being > slightly more helpful for each. No particular opinion from here. Someone (was it Scott Marlowe?) recently

Re: [DOCS] Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

2006-03-20 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Mar 20, 2006, at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A base backup taken from a running postmaster will still include a postmaster.pid file, which will prevent a new postmaster from being able to be started. Usually not; only if the PID mentioned in

Re: [DOCS] Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

2006-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A base backup taken from a running postmaster will still include a > postmaster.pid file, which will prevent a new postmaster from being > able to be started. Usually not; only if the PID mentioned in the file belongs to an existing process b

[DOCS] Online Backups: Minor Caveat, Major Addition?

2006-03-20 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I just completed my first online backup and recovery cycle in a test environment. I encountered a minor hiccup at step 8 of the process outlined in the docs in 23.3.3, "Recovering with an On-line Backup": http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html#BACKUP- PITR-RECOVERY