Re: Incrementally Updated Backups - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Incrementally Updated Backups
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Msg-id 201009112215.o8BMFs321768@momjian.us
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In response to Incrementally Updated Backups  (Gabe Nell <gabe@kikini.com>)
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Re: Incrementally Updated Backups
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Gabe Nell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in the "incrementally updated backups" scenario
> described in section 25.6 of the Postgres 9 documentation. I've
> configured streaming replication for my warm standby server.
>
> Step 2 in this procedure is to note?pg_last_xlog_replay_location at
> the end of the backup. However it seems like this requires hot standby
> to be configured; otherwise there is no way of connecting to the
> standby machine to make the required query. That does not seem clear
> from the documentation. Is there a way to get this without using hot
> standby?

That section has been removed from the current 9.0 docs because we are
unsure it works.

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