Re: using pg_basebackup for point in time recovery

Hi Michael
On Thursday, June 21, 2018, 7:28:13 AM GMT+2, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

>You should avoid top-posting on the Postgres lists, this is not the
>usual style used by people around :)

Will do, but Yahoo Mail! does not seem to like that, so I am typing the > myself

>Attached is a patch which includes your suggestion.  What do you think?
>As that's an improvement, only HEAD would get that clarification.

Yes I think it is now perfectly clear. Much appreciated to have the chance to contribute to the doc by the way, it is very nice
>Perhaps.  There is really nothing preventing one to add a recovery.conf
>afterwards, which is also why pg_basebackup -R exists.  I do that as
>well for some of the framework I work with and maintain.
I just went to the doc to check about this -R option :-)
Pierre