From: Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: pg_receivexlog only captures WAL data, not *.backup?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:24:29 -0600
Message-ID: <87inc9ceua.fsf@jsievers.enova.com> (raw)
This is on 9.6 and I have not tested on 10 yet.
The docs mention being able to use pg_receivexlog in stead of
archive_command as main backup method, I wonder how this is possible?
I did observe that no such *.backup file gets copied by pg_receivexlog
after the server was put in and taken out of backup mode.
It was my impression that *.backup files were required during PITR to
mark the point of consistency.
Is this not or no longer the case?
Or, I wonder if it depends on pg_basebackup being used w/one of the
options that captures all WAL as part of it?
Also, I did not (yet) test to see whether timeline *.history files get
copied if pg_receivexlog was pointed at a standby that was then
promoted.
Thanks for any insight.
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Jerry Sievers
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