On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Brian Weaver <cmdrclueless@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless I misread the code, the tar format and streaming xlog are
> mutually exclusive. Considering my normal state of fatigue it's not
> unlikely. I don't want to have to set my wal_keep_segments
> artificially high just for the backup
Correct, you can't use both of those at the same time. That can
certainly be improved - but injecting a file into the tar from a
different process is far from easy. But one idea might be to just
stream the WAL into a *separate* tarfile in this case.
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