Re: Checkpoint Location Format

Yup that sounds useful - would this be another column added to the
pg_stop_backup called "wal_filename" or similar?
My script uses this name to find the date/time of the current ".backup"
file and remove any files earlier than it (except obviously the one
listed in the START WAL LOCATION).
I've yet to run a restore test, but the backup and automatic archive
clearout is working nicely.

I'm not too worried about the SQL function to find the current WAL file,
although I can see this could be useful too.

Thanks,

Andy.

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:12 +0000, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
>
>
>> I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use
>> with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and
>> gzip the cluster data directory, issue the pg_stop_backup call, and
>> remove all previous un-needed WAL files from the archive.
>>
>
> Is this any help?
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-05/msg00229.php
>
> If so, I'll see about updating it so it can get backpatched to 8.0 and
> 8.1 also.
>
>


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