Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4796: Recovery followed by backup creates unrecoverable WAL-file

Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 18:57 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I don't see any user error here.
> 
> Just observing that the error occurs because we rely on a file being
> there when we haven't even documented that it needs to be there for it
> to work. File deletion with %r from the archive would not have removed
> that file at that point. We should have an explicit statement about
> which files can be deleted from the archive and which should not be, but
> in general it is dangerous to remove files that have not been explicitly
> described as removable.

When you create a new base backup, you shouldn't need any files archived 
before starting the backup. You might not even have had archiving 
enabled before that, or you might change archive_command to archive into 
a new location before tarting the backup.

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