Re: PITR Backups

Ah okay. I understand now. So how can I signal postgres I'm about to
take a backup ? (read doc from previous email ? )

Regards,
Dan Gorman

On Jun 22, 2007, at 4:38 AM, Simon Riggs wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 04:10 -0700, Dan Gorman wrote:
>> This snapshot is done at the LUN (filer) level, postgres is un-aware
>> we're creating a backup, so I'm not sure how pg_start_backup() plays
>> into this ...
>
> Postgres *is* completely unaware that you intend to take a backup,
> that
> is *exactly* why you must tell the server you intend to make a backup,
> using pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup(). That way Postgres will
> flush its buffers, so that they are present on storage when you
> make the
> backup.
>
> Is the procedure for Oracle or any other transactional RDBMS any
> different?
>
> --
>   Simon Riggs
>   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com
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