On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:28 -0700, valgog wrote:
> > This process seems almost entirely unrelated to the documented way of
> > doing it; I'm not surprised that you end up with some files not in sync.
> > Please see pg_start_backup and friends.
> It was done as documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/backup-incremental-updated.html
The procedure used does differ from that documented. However, IMHO the
procedure *documented* is *not* safe and could lead to corrupt indexes
in the way described, since the last recovered point might be mid-way
between two halves of an index split record, which will never be
corrected during HS. What I find surprising is that the technique the OP
describes should be safe, assuming step 5 waits for the correct point of
consistency before attempting to run queries.
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