pg_start_backup without WAL archiving - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject pg_start_backup without WAL archiving
Date
Msg-id 200711251524.08249.peter_e@gmx.net
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Responses Re: pg_start_backup without WAL archiving  ("Jeff Larsen" <jlar310@gmail.com>)
Re: pg_start_backup without WAL archiving  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Why is it not allowed to call pg_start_backup when WAL archiving is off?
Wouldn't this be useful as a discrete file system backup without PITR
capability?

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