Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4796: Recovery followed by backup creates unrecoverable WAL-file - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:34 +0200, Mikael Krantz wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > That was the original issue you ran into. That has now been fixed by forcing
> > an xlog switch at pg_start_backup(), so that you can't start a backup in a
> > WAL file that contains records from a lower numbered timeline.
> 
> Ah, sorry.

No worries. Thanks for reporting the original bug and for staying
involved while we think of how to handle the problems it highlights.

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