From 3d1092128c67c13004dff5a6ad58dbf35d05aa4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias van de Meent Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:20:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v2] incremental backups: Add new items to glossary, monitoring.sgml The previous patches seem to have overlooked this. --- doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml index 5815fa4471..2db0af766a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml @@ -893,6 +893,28 @@ + + Incremental Backup + + + A special base backup + that for some WAL-logged relations only contains the pages that were + modified since a previous backup, as opposed to the full relation data of + normal base backups. Like base backups, it is generated by the tool + . + + + To restore incremental backups the tool + is used, which combines the incremental backups with a base backup and + WAL to restore a + database cluster to + a consistent state. + + + For more information, see . + + + Insert @@ -2157,6 +2179,20 @@ + + WAL summarizer (process) + + + A special backend process + that summarizes WAL data for + incremental backups. + + + For more information, see . + + + + WAL writer (process) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index b804eb8b5e..6e74138a69 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml @@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: ser client backend, checkpointer, archiver, standalone backend, startup, walreceiver, - walsender and walwriter. + walsender, walwriter and + walsummarizer. In addition, background workers registered by extensions may have additional types. -- 2.40.1