Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: This is copied from the old documentation. It used to say It is not necessary to be concerned about the amount of time elapsed between pg_start_backup and the start of

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-16 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: This is copied from the old documentation. It used to say It is not necessary to be concerned about the amount of time elapsed between pg_start_backup and the start of the actual backup, nor between the end of the backup and pg_stop_backup. And the

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Please let's apply that documentation patch to 9.2 too. Agreed. Here's a patch that does the first two things. Does not attempt a tl;tr

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-15 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: -The procedure for making a base backup is relatively simple: +The easiest way to perform a base backup is to use the +xref linkend=app-pgbasebackup tool. It can create +a base backup either as regular files or as a tar archive. If

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: -    The procedure for making a base backup is relatively simple: +    The easiest way to perform a base backup is to use the +    xref linkend=app-pgbasebackup tool. It

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-14 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Dimitri Fontaine dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr wrote: Please let's apply that documentation patch to 9.2 too. Agreed. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-13 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: I would like to see that page changed to list pg_basebackup as the default way of doing base backups, and then list the manual way as an option if you need more flexibility. +1 I'd also like to add pg_basebackup -x under standalone hot backups,

[HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
In reference to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html I would like to see that page changed to list pg_basebackup as the default way of doing base backups, and then list the manual way as an option if you need more flexibility. The reason being that for the

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-05 Thread Simon Riggs
On 5 June 2012 14:43, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: In reference to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html I would like to see that page changed to list pg_basebackup as the default way of doing base backups, and then list the manual way as an

Re: [HACKERS] Backup docs

2012-06-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: In reference to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html I would like to see that page changed to list pg_basebackup as the default way of doing base backups, and then list the manual way as an option if you need more