Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> Also, regarding needing to place an archiver command in
> pg_start_backup_online, another option would be to depend on the
> filesystem backup to copy the WAL files, and just let them pile up in
> pg_xlog until pg_stop_backup_online. Of course, that would require a
> two-step filesystem copy, since you'd need to first copy everything in
> $PGDATA, and then copy $PGDATA/pg_xlog after you have that.
Sounds fine. This solves the problem to insure that all required wal
files are actually copied to the wal archive.
Regards,
Andreas
