Re: recovery_init_sync_method=wal

2021-03-21 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Thomas Munro (thomas.mu...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:31 AM Stephen Frost wrote: > > Presuming that we do add to the documentation the language to document > > what's assumed (and already done by modern backup tools) that they're > > fsync'ing everything they're re

Re: recovery_init_sync_method=wal

2021-03-21 Thread Thomas Munro
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:31 AM Stephen Frost wrote: > Presuming that we do add to the documentation the language to document > what's assumed (and already done by modern backup tools) that they're > fsync'ing everything they're restoring, do we/can we have an option > which those tools could set

Re: recovery_init_sync_method=wal

2021-03-21 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Thomas Munro (thomas.mu...@gmail.com) wrote: > 2. You made a file system-level copy of a cluster that you shut down > cleanly first, using cp, tar, scp, rsync, xmodem etc. Now you start > up the copy. Its checkpoint is a forgery. (Maybe our manual should > mention this problem und