Re: Forcing WAL switch - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Forcing WAL switch
Date
Msg-id 22970.1123796303@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Forcing WAL switch  ("Walker, Jed S" <Jed_Walker@cable.comcast.com>)
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"Walker, Jed S" <Jed_Walker@cable.comcast.com> writes:
> To have a good hot backup. It is worthless if I don't have the log that
> was being written to at the time the backup was occurring correct?

Right, but how does forcing a segment switch make that any easier?  You
still have to determine which segment is current at the time you start
the backup.

            regards, tom lane

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