On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:41 -0400, Vitaly Burshteyn wrote: > Out of curiosity, any idea why every time I run select > pg_stop_backup(); it goes into an infinite loop? When you say "infinite" do you mean to say it never comes out of the loop at all? Not sure if you are reporting a bug, or not. The manual describes what is happening: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP Step 5 Is there anything you think should be added to the manual? -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin