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Re: pg_stop_backup does not complete

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-24T21:41:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Josh Berkus wrote:
> So I'm seeing pg_abort_backup(), which also produces a
> markers which prevent the backup from loading, as an improvement on
> current UI.

Starting with 9.0, if recovery doesn't see a end-of-backup record, it
will refuse to start up. In earlier versions we had a similar mechanism
using the backup history files.

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