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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Backup strategies
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:51:53 -0400
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> The files may change, but it doesn't matter, because there is enough
>> information in the xlog to correct it all.

> I'm thinking about these paragraphs in the documentation:

>> You can, however, omit from the backup dump the files within the
>> pg_xlog/ subdirectory of the cluster directory.

The assumption is that a PITR backup configuration provides a separate
pathway for the xlog files to get to the slave database.

			regards, tom lane

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