Re: Incremental backup from a streaming replication standby fails - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Fri, 2024-07-19 at 16:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> > I'd be alright with the hint, but I'd say "during making an *incremental*
> > standby backup", because that's the only case where it can happen.
> >
> > I think it would also be sufficient if we document that possibility.
> > When I got the error, I looked at the documentation of incremental
> > backup for any limitations with standby servers, but didn't find any.
> > A remark in the documentation would have satisfied me.
>
> Would you like to propose a patch adding a hint and/or adjusting the
> documentation? Or are you wanting me to do that?

Here is a patch.
I went for both the errhint and some documentation.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe