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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-02-24 14:03:11 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-02-24 14:03:11 +0000
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Mention that the archive history file has the wal start/stop file names.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
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+++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.75 2005/11/04 23:13:59 petere Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml,v 2.75.2.1 2006/02/24 14:03:11 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="backup">
<title>Backup and Restore</title>
@@ -744,12 +744,13 @@ SELECT pg_stop_backup();
<function>pg_stop_backup</> and the archiving of all WAL segment
files needed to make the file system backup consistent.
</para>
+
<para>
The backup history file is just a small text file. It contains the
label string you gave to <function>pg_start_backup</>, as well as
- the starting and ending times of the backup. If you used the label
- to identify where the associated dump file is kept, then the
- archived history file is enough to tell you which dump file to
+ the starting and ending times and WAL segments of the backup.
+ If you used the label to identify where the associated dump file is kept,
+ then the archived history file is enough to tell you which dump file to
restore, should you need to do so.
</para>