On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 17:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> I don't think that people are very likely to need to turn archiving on
> and off on-the-fly.
We did need occasionally to turn archiving on on-the-fly. It did happen
that I started up a new DB machine and I did not have yet the log
archive available, s
Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly
>>> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be
>>> possible to flip it from
"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It strikes me that allowing archive_command to be changed on the fly
>> might not be such a good idea though, or at least it shouldn't be
>> possible to flip it from empty to nonempty during live opera
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Say you issue COPY, CREATE INDEX etc..
> > pg_start_backup()
> > pg_stop_backup()
> > ...then bulk operation ends.
> > This will result in a base backup that does not contain the data written
> > duri
