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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml index 7cb690dded7..e66a7ae8eed 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml @@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation target directory, the tar contents will be written to standard output, suitable for piping to for example <productname>gzip</productname>. This is only possible if - the cluster has no additional tablespaces. + the cluster has no additional tablespaces and transaction + log streaming is not used. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -323,6 +324,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation If the log has been rotated when it's time to transfer it, the backup will fail and be unusable. </para> + <para> + The transaction log files will be written to + the <filename>base.tar</filename> file. + </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -339,6 +344,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation client can keep up with transaction log received, using this mode requires no extra transaction logs to be saved on the master. </para> + <para> + The transaction log files are written to a separate file + named <filename>pg_wal.tar</filename> (if the server is a version + earlier than 10, the file will be named <filename>pg_xlog.tar</filename>). + </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> @@ -353,7 +363,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation <para> Enables gzip compression of tar file output, with the default compression level. Compression is only available when using - the tar format. + the tar format, and the suffix <filename>.gz</filename> will + automatically be added to all tar filenames. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -366,7 +377,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation Enables gzip compression of tar file output, and specifies the compression level (0 through 9, 0 being no compression and 9 being best compression). Compression is only available when using the tar - format. + format, and the suffix <filename>.gz</filename> will + automatically be added to all tar filenames. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |