On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:09:15AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote: > Based on Jürgen Fuchsberger's experience described on the general > list, I think the following should have been back-patched to 8.4 and > 8.3 (assuming it gets a minor update before it EOL) as well, not just > 9.0. > > In particular, in 8.4 chapter 24.4.5 it says "it will be up to you to > determine how far back you need to keep WAL segment files to have a > recoverable backup" but it dangerously does not mention that it is > also up to you to construct a backup_label file such that those WAL > segment files will actually get used. > > > > commit 13e6d6c5da184abcdfcfc9874ad17ef09f4ea044 > Author: Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> > Date: Wed Aug 25 23:55:54 2010 +0000 > > Remove docs for "Incrementally Updated Backups" because it was of > questionable reliability; information moved to a wiki: > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups > > Backpatch to 9.0.
We don't assume people are reading docs from very old versions. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
