On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Heikki Linnakangas > I can see why you'd want that, but it seems equally problematic to let > pg_basebackup return, when the WAL files haven't been archived yet and you > therefore don't in fact have valid, restorable backup yet. Have you > considered using the --xlog-method=stream option, to include the WAL files > in the backup? That will make your backups somewhat larger, as the WAL files > are included, but in that mode pg_basebackup won't wait for the archival and > the backup will be restorable even if archive_command is failing.
I'm supporting PG 9.1 at the moment so cannot rely on --xlog-method=stream. I agree that the current behavior is for most use cases better, and I think that the behavior I want should be explicitly enabled with an option. -- Stuart Bishop <stu...@stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
