On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 15:41, Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 07:39:30PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 13:06 Michael Paquier, <mich...@paquier.xyz> wrote: > >> Yeah, it is safer to assume that it is the responsability of the > >> backup tool to ensure that because it could be possible that a host is > >> unplugged just after taking a backup, and having Postgres do this work > >> at the beginning of archive recovery would not help in most cases. > > > > Let's document that assumption in the docs for pg_basebackup and the file > > system copy based replica creation docs. With a reference to initdb's > > datadir sync option. > > Do you have any suggestion about that, in the shape of a patch perhaps? > I'll try to get to that, but I have some other docs patches outstanding that I'd like to resolve first. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ 2ndQuadrant - PostgreSQL Solutions for the Enterprise
