Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:
> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> The files may change, but it doesn't matter, because there is enough
>> information in the xlog to correct it all.
> I'm thinking about these paragraphs in the documentation:
>> You can, however, omit from the backup dump the files within the
>> pg_xlog/ subdirectory of the cluster directory.
The assumption is that a PITR backup configuration provides a separate
pathway for the xlog files to get to the slave database.
regards, tom lane