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Series: patch v2-0001
Subject: incremental backups: Add new items to glossary, monitoring.sgml
| File | + | − |
|---|---|---|
| doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 36 | 0 |
| doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 2 | 1 |
From 3d1092128c67c13004dff5a6ad58dbf35d05aa4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:20:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2] incremental backups: Add new items to glossary,
monitoring.sgml
The previous patches seem to have overlooked this.
---
doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
index 5815fa4471..2db0af766a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
@@ -893,6 +893,28 @@
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id="glossary-incremental-backup">
+ <glossterm>Incremental Backup</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-basebackup">base backup</glossterm>
+ that for some WAL-logged relations only contains the pages that were
+ modified since a previous backup, as opposed to the full relation data of
+ normal base backups. Like base backups, it is generated by the tool
+ <xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"/>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To restore incremental backups the tool <xref linkend="app-pgcombinebackup"/>
+ is used, which combines the incremental backups with a base backup and
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-wal">WAL</glossterm> to restore a
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-db-cluster">database cluster</glossterm> to
+ a consistent state.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information, see <xref linkend="backup-incremental-backup"/>.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary-insert">
<glossterm>Insert</glossterm>
@@ -2157,6 +2179,20 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id="glossary-wal-summarizer">
+ <glossterm>WAL summarizer (process)</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-backend">backend process</glossterm>
+ that summarizes WAL data for
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-incremental-backup">incremental backups</glossterm>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information, see <xref linkend="runtime-config-wal-summarization"/>.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id="glossary-wal-writer">
<glossterm>WAL writer (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index b804eb8b5e..6e74138a69 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: ser
<literal>client backend</literal>, <literal>checkpointer</literal>,
<literal>archiver</literal>, <literal>standalone backend</literal>,
<literal>startup</literal>, <literal>walreceiver</literal>,
- <literal>walsender</literal> and <literal>walwriter</literal>.
+ <literal>walsender</literal>, <literal>walwriter</literal> and
+ <literal>walsummarizer</literal>.
In addition, background workers registered by extensions may have
additional types.
</para></entry>
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2.40.1