Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:42:05 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.4 doc bug for "Incrementally Updated Backups"
Message-ID: <20121123234205.GA1605@momjian.us>
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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 <bruce@momjian.us>
> 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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