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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: .backup files not needed?
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:28:28 -0400
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Simon Riggs <[email protected]> writes:
> Just had questions from a replication user about why the .backup file is
> described as "can ordinarily be ignored" and is considered optional by
> recovery also even when pg_start_backup() was used.

What it says is that the second part of the filename can ordinarily
be ignored.  I don't know why neither he nor you managed to parse the
sentence correctly.  Feel free to propose a rewording, but removing
information doesn't sound like a solution.

			regards, tom lane

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