Hello, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:39:34 +0100 Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Thomas Karcher <thkarcher@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > this one is still open when I run pg_stop_backup(), so I want to trigger > > > the archive_command to be sure that I don't miss anything. > > > > I guess what you want is pg_switch_xlog() (see > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-admin.html) > this is exactly what I am looking for > > which became available with PG 8.2 ... > unfortunately right now I am stuck to PG 8.1.4. > I hope I can manage to upgrade without too much hassle, it seems meanwhile I > have to use my workaround. a very rude hack is to produce enough changes so that PG will rotate the logfile anyway: CHECKPOINT; CREATE TABLE xlog_switch AS SELECT '0123456789ABCDE'::VARCHAR FROM generate_series(1,300000); DROP TABLE xlog_switch; This is a lot of overhead, but it does the job. Kind regards -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
