On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Dmitry Koterov <dmi...@koterov.ru> wrote:
> Could you please provide a bit more detailed explanation on how it works? > > And how could postgres write at the middle of archiving files during an > active pg_start_backup? if it could, here might be a case when a part of > archived data file contains an overridden information "from the future", > The data files cannot contain information from the future. If the backup is restored, it must be restored to the time of pg_stop_backup (at least), which means the data would at that point be from the past/present, not the future. Cheers, Jeff