On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> That's awfully complicated. If we're going to require co-operation from the
> backup/archiving software, we might as well just change the procedure so
> that backup_label is not stored in the data directory, but returned by
> pg_start/stop_backup(), and the caller is responsible for placing it in the
> backed up copy of the data directory (or provide a new version of them to
> retain backwards compatibility). That would be a lot simpler.

That's also entirely acceptable.  In fact, I like it.

+1

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