Index: doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v retrieving revision 2.83 diff -c -r2.83 backup.sgml *** doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml 17 Aug 2006 23:04:02 -0000 2.83 --- doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml 8 Sep 2006 17:47:46 -0000 *************** *** 855,861 **** Start the server. The server will go into recovery mode and ! proceed to read through the archived WAL files it needs. Upon completion of the recovery process, the server will rename recovery.conf to recovery.done (to prevent accidentally re-entering recovery mode in case of a crash later) and then --- 855,863 ---- Start the server. The server will go into recovery mode and ! proceed to read through the archived WAL files it needs. Should the ! recovery be terminated because of an external error, the server can ! simply be restarted and it will continue recovery. Upon completion of the recovery process, the server will rename recovery.conf to recovery.done (to prevent accidentally re-entering recovery mode in case of a crash later) and then *************** *** 935,941 **** recover to such a time, you must go back to your previous base backup and roll forward from there.) ! Recovery Settings --- 937,957 ---- recover to such a time, you must go back to your previous base backup and roll forward from there.) ! ! ! ! If recovery finds a corruption in the WAL data then recovery will ! complete at that point and the server will not start. The recovery ! process could be re-run from the beginning, specifying a ! recovery target so that recovery can complete normally. ! If recovery fails for an external reason, such as a system crash or ! the WAL archive has become inaccessible, then the recovery can be ! simply restarted and it will restart almost from where it failed. ! Restartable recovery works by writing a restartpoint record to the control ! file at the first safely usable checkpoint record found after ! checkpoint_timeout seconds. ! ! Recovery Settings