Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E3864FE8F for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:52:01 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74000-01 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:51:57 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282D064FE7D for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:51:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9FFpswf022267; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:51:54 -0400 (EDT) To: Ivan Voras cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Backup strategies In-reply-to: References: <48F4D693.9000304@lerner.co.il> <48F5BBFC.80404@krogh.cc> <48F5D6AE.3000601@lelarge.info> Comments: In-reply-to Ivan Voras message dated "Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:05:06 +0200" Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:51:53 -0400 Message-ID: <22266.1224085913@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200810/88 X-Sequence-Number: 31669 Ivan Voras 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