Re: PATCH: Make pg_stop_backup() archive wait optional

On 2/27/17 6:25 PM, David Steele wrote:
> The purpose of this patch is to make waiting for archive optional, with
> the default being the current behavior, i.e., to wait for all WAL to be
> archived.  This functionality is already used internally by
> pg_basebackup, so the only real change is to expose it through the
> pg_stop_backup() function.

Do the docs mention anywhere how to monitor WAL archiving to know if 
you've got all the necessary WAL? Perhaps a function to do that would be 
worth adding.
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