On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Craig Ringer <ringerc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/24/2012 03:45 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: >> >> As previously stated, make sure you understand how this happened, so >> you can make sure it doesn't happen again. The contents of the >> pg_xlog directory are an integral part of your database cluster. > > > People not backing up pg_xlog, deleting its contents, etc happens often > enough that I wonder if it should have a prominent 00_README or > 00_WARNING_DONT_DELETE file created by initdb - or simply be renamed to > something scarier like "base_txrecords". This doesn't help when your backup skips them because the files exist on another disk partition. Out of sight, out of mind. If pg_basebackup defaulted to --xlog and its use was encouraged these mistakes might be less common. -- Stuart Bishop <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.stuartbishop.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
