To have a good hot backup. It is worthless if I don't have the log that
was being written to at the time the backup was occurring correct? If
I'm wrong please explain.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:04 AM
To: Walker, Jed S
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Forcing WAL switch
"Walker, Jed S" <Jed_Walker@cable.comcast.com> writes:
> I can't find a way to force a WAL to switch other than just generating
> a lot of changes in the database. I'd like to be able to switch to the
> next WAL before a hot backup, and then switch out one after the hot
> backup.
What's the point?
regards, tom lane
