On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:39 +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > I'm asking: what _exactly_ can go wrong? If a checkpoint occurs while taking the backup then the contents of the files will be overwritten and you will be unable to rollforward from before the backup until after the backup. This will give you the FATAL error message "WAL ends before end time of backup dump". You won't know this until you have attempted recovery using those files, even if the scripts give rc=0. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
