On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:48:13PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> In 9.0, recovery doesn't read a backup history file. That FATAL error happens
> if recovery ends before it reads the WAL record which was generated by
> pg_stop_backup(). IOW, recovery gets the recovery ending location from WAL
> record not backup history file. Since you didn't run pg_stop_backup() and there
> is no WAL record containing the recovery ending location, you got that error.
>
> If you want to take hot backup from the standby, you need to do the procedure
> explained in
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups
Is it intentional and/or does it serve some greater good? I mean -
ability to make backups on slave without ever bothering master was
pretty interesting.
Best regards,
depesz
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