Venkat Balaji wrote: > Our problem is - > > We had mistakenly executed "rsync" on the running PostgreSQL data directory (production) and we did > not run "pg_start_backup()". > > Will this harm production ? can this lead to corruption ?
I assume that you used rsync to copy *from* the data directory. This cannot lead to data corruption. Only performance might suffer temporarily due to the additional I/O. The backup made with rsync will be unusable without pg_start_backup(). Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
