"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