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From: Josh Kupershmidt <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: confusing archive_command example
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:34:46 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hi,
On the page:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-ARCHIVING-WAL

an example archive_command of:
archive_command = 'cp -i %p /mnt/server/archivedir/%f </dev/null'

is given. Then, a few lines later, an example archive command of:
archive_command = 'test ! -f .../%f && cp %p .../%f'

is given. I think this second command would be more clear if it used
"/mnt/server/archivedir/" instead of "...", to tie in with the
previous archive_command. It took me a minute to figure out that the
three dots were supposed to be an ellipsis instead of a typo for the
parent directory "..".

Josh

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