Simon Riggs wrote:
> That will make PITRs fail:
>
> 1. pg_start_backup()
> 2. backup
> 3. shutdown, removes backup_label
> 4. pg_stop_backup()
>
> step 4 will now fail because of a missing backup_label file.
Wait a minute:
pg_stop_backup() will also fail in the current setup,
because after recovery backup_label gets renamed
to backup_label.old.
So what do we lose if we remove (or rename) backup_label
on a clean server shutdown?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
