Hi, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. until we upgrade, we do it in a very similar way. thanks Sebastian ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
