Re: Review of last summer's PITR patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-pitr

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Review of last summer's PITR patch
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Msg-id 25866.1076634863@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Review of last summer's PITR patch  (Cott Lang <cott@internetstaff.com>)
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Cott Lang <cott@internetstaff.com> writes:
> * The ability to force a WAL log switch to ensure all changes during the
> backup are flushed to archived logs and copied.

Why does that require a log switch?  You can copy the active log file in
any case.  (There was actually code to do that in J.R.'s patch, which I
disregarded because I see no point in it ...)

            regards, tom lane

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