From 12a2b5290f29e3897391cc7b7a2666198cb1e835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias van de Meent Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:20:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v3] incremental backups: Add new items to glossary, monitoring.sgml The previous patches seem to have overlooked this. --- doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml index 5815fa4471..a0150e5c48 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml @@ -893,6 +893,27 @@ + + Incremental backup + + + A special base backup + that for some files may contain only those pages that were modified since + a previous backup, as opposed to the full contents of every file. Like + base backups, it is generated by the tool . + + + To restore incremental backups the tool + is used, which combines incremental backups with a base backup and + WAL to restore a + database cluster to + a consistent state. + + + For more information, see . + + + Insert @@ -2157,6 +2178,20 @@ + + 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