Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation

2006-11-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:49:36 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As already discussed upthread, anyone who wants the path can get it from > `pwd` or local equivalent --- and that mechanism is robust (as long as > the directory move doesn't happen while any particular instance of t

Re: [PATCHES] Bug in WAL backup documentation

2006-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
Bernd Helmle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Our WAL backup documentation says in some parts of it: > ..."%p is replaced by the absolute path of the file to archive..." [1] > I think this is (at least for 8.1 and upcoming 8.2 releases) wrong, since > the archiver replaces this with pg_xlog/ only,