Re: [HACKERS] backup_label revisited

2014-06-08 Thread Noah Misch
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 06:17:29PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: > > What about the case where we restore the backup to another server and > > start the recovery? In this case, ISTM inode can be the same. No? > > Hm, I was about to comment that that

Re: [HACKERS] backup_label revisited

2014-06-04 Thread Greg Stark
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: > Could you let me know the link to the page explaining this? > >> That would even protect against another >> restore on the same host. > > What about the case where we restore the backup to another server and > start the recovery? In this case, I

Re: [HACKERS] backup_label revisited

2014-06-02 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > So I ran into the case again where a system crashed while a hot backup > was being taken. Postgres couldn't start up automatically because the > backup_label was present. This has come up before e.g. > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/caazku

[HACKERS] backup_label revisited

2014-05-29 Thread Greg Stark
So I ran into the case again where a system crashed while a hot backup was being taken. Postgres couldn't start up automatically because the backup_label was present. This has come up before e.g. http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/caazkufap1gxcojtyzch13rvevjevwro1vvfbysqtwgud9is...@mail.gmail.com