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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-10-11 17:33:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2011-10-11 17:33:20 -0400 |
| commit | 47cacfc0f171c7794a8a953e4676db60e1fb261c (patch) | |
| tree | c0ba34e544380bfeee73418a5ae9d40a599467f5 | |
| parent | 600d3206d1b3f8b540397b79905486a536ac7f78 (diff) | |
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Document that not backing up postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts might
help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused.
Backpatch to 9.1.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml index b8daedcbb6e..737355a911d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml @@ -869,7 +869,11 @@ SELECT pg_stop_backup(); of mistakes when restoring. This is easy to arrange if <filename>pg_xlog/</> is a symbolic link pointing to someplace outside the cluster directory, which is a common setup anyway for performance - reasons. + reasons. You might also want to exclude <filename>postmaster.pid</> + and <filename>postmaster.opts</>, which record information + about the running <application>postmaster</>, not about the + <application>postmaster</> which will eventually use this backup. + (These files can confuse <application>pg_ctl</>.) </para> <para> |