On 31 May 2013 18:38, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
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> I can check for the presence of $PGDATA/backup_label in order to detect
> a backup in progress (i.e. pg_start_backup() has been run and
> pg_stop_backup() has not yet been run).
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> However there is a period of time after pg_start_backup() is first
> executed to when it completes, during which backup_label file does not
> exist yet, but the backup has essentially been started. Is there any
> way to detect this state?
pg_is_in_backup()
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Thom
