[HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] BUG #8043: 9.2.4 doesn't open WAL files from archive, only looks in pg_xlog

2013-05-07 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 08.04.2013 18:58, Jeff Bohmer wrote: On Apr 6, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Perhaps we should improve the documentation to make it more explicit that backup_label must be included in the backup. The docs already say that, t

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] BUG #8043: 9.2.4 doesn't open WAL files from archive, only looks in pg_xlog

2013-04-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Jeff Janes 2013-04-06 > I don't think the docs are very clear on that. They say "This file will of > course be archived as a part of your backup dump file", but "will be" does > not imply "must be". Elsewhere it emphasizes that the label you gave to > pg_start_backup is written into the fil

[HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] BUG #8043: 9.2.4 doesn't open WAL files from archive, only looks in pg_xlog

2013-04-06 Thread Jeff Janes
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > Incidentally, I bumped into another custom backup script just a few weeks > back that also excluded backup_label. I don't know what the author was > thinking when he wrote that, but it seems to be a surprisingly common > mistake. Maybe