Hi, I'm currently testing online backups, and I'm facing the problem of a missing WAL when I do the backup : the current WAL isn't archived when I save the archives, and is required to recover... I've read in the mailing list archives that it can be solved by copying the current WAL from pg_xlog. Even if this solution works, it looks to me to be more of a workaround than anything else, and adds some complexity to an operation that is allready not that simple. I'd like to know if there is a way to force the switch from a WAL to the next one, like with an 'alter system archive log current' in Oracle. Cheers. Marc Cousin