On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 2:35 PM Jeff Janes <jeff.ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoting the docs: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/continuous-archiving.html > > "As with base backups, the easiest way to produce a standalone hot backup > is to use the pg_basebackup tool. If you include the -X parameter when > calling it, all the write-ahead log required to use the backup will be > included in the backup automatically, and no special action is required to > restore the backup." > > This makes it sound like -X is a switch option, when in fact it demands an > argument. The statement made is incorrect if the supplied argument is > "none", but is correct for the other two options. Should this be changed > to spell out which options it applies to (or maybe which option it does not > apply to). > Just reading the doc page for pg_basebackup: "stream" is the default method value for this option. So if you just include "-X" you get "stream" which is indeed a mode that just works and the continuous archiving section you quote is correct. I'm not really sure I like the idea that we don't indicate which pg_basebackup key-value argument values are optional and which are mandatory. David J.
