On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 01:41:26PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> > And no it is at least not well documented. But there are other parts
> which
> > aren't as well - such as the requirement to actually run pg_stop_backup()
> even
> > in the case you want to abort a backup, or your next one will fail.
> Basically
> > the old method is quite fragile and no, we haven't documented that
> properly
> > previously.
>
> Well, if the API was in wide use and will be supported for several more
> years, we had better document it, no?
>
>
> Absolutely. That was part of that "bigger backup docs rewrite" that hasn't
> happened yet, but hopefully will before the final release.
Well, I don't even know the details of the failures, so I can't add that
information. Let's get it in there somewhere and I can move it around
later.
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