Re: Incremental backup from a streaming replication standby fails

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Incremental backup from a streaming replication standby fails
Date: 2024-07-19 22:07:36
Message-ID: 297b82a297fa9c889354d59c3c6f989e1dbb6302.camel@cybertec.at
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On Fri, 2024-07-19 at 16:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > I'd be alright with the hint, but I'd say "during making an *incremental*
> > standby backup", because that's the only case where it can happen.
> >
> > I think it would also be sufficient if we document that possibility.
> > When I got the error, I looked at the documentation of incremental
> > backup for any limitations with standby servers, but didn't find any.
> > A remark in the documentation would have satisfied me.
>
> Would you like to propose a patch adding a hint and/or adjusting the
> documentation? Or are you wanting me to do that?

Here is a patch.
I went for both the errhint and some documentation.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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v1-0001-Add-documentation-and-hint-for-incremental-backup.patch text/x-patch 2.6 KB

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