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To: Jeff Janes <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:42:05 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:09:15AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> Based on Jürgen Fuchsberger's experience described on the general
> list, I think the following should have been back-patched to 8.4 and
> 8.3 (assuming it gets a minor update before it EOL) as well, not just
> 9.0.
>
> In particular, in 8.4 chapter 24.4.5 it says "it will be up to you to
> determine how far back you need to keep WAL segment files to have a
> recoverable backup" but it dangerously does not mention that it is
> also up to you to construct a backup_label file such that those WAL
> segment files will actually get used.
>
>
>
> commit 13e6d6c5da184abcdfcfc9874ad17ef09f4ea044
> Author: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed Aug 25 23:55:54 2010 +0000
>
> Remove docs for "Incrementally Updated Backups" because it was of
> questionable reliability; information moved to a wiki:
>
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups
>
> Backpatch to 9.0.
We don't assume people are reading docs from very old versions.
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