Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:18 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >> Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> What PostgreSQL version are you using? I know the *.backup file removal >>> was added in 8.1: >>> >>> * Remove old "*.backup" files when we do pg_stop_backup() (Bruce) >>> This prevents a large number of "*.backup" files from existing in >>> "/pg_xlog". >>> >>> but the existance of the files should not cause problems. >> It's 8.1.4, running on FC 5. >> >> It does not cause any active problems, but the WAL archiving fails until >> the *.backup and *.done files are removed manually, after which all the >> "ready" WAL segments are archived away normally. > > This is a known problem fixed on June 22 and the fix has been applied to > 8.1 branch as well as what will become 8.2. > > The next point release for 8.1 should have that included. In that case, I can work around this easily until the next release. Thank you for clearing this up! Chris -- Christian Kastner PGP Key: AE90E13f
