Heikki Linnakangas 223431cba1 Request XLOG switch before writing checkpoint in pg_start_backup(). Otherwise ... you can end up with an unrecoverable backup if you start a new base backup right after finishing archive recovery. In that scenario, the redo pointer of the checkpoint that pg_start_backup() writes points to the XLOG segment where the timeline-changing end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint is. The beginning of that segment contains pages with the old timeline ID, and we don't accept that in recovery unless we find a history file covering the old timeline ID. If you omit pg_xlog from the base backup and clear the archive directory before starting the backup, there will be no such history file available. The bug is present in all versions since PITR was introduced in 8.0, but I'm back-patching only back to 8.2. Earlier versions didn't have XLOG switch records, making this fix unfeasible. Given the lack of reports until now, it doesn't seem worthwhile to spend more effort to fix 8.0 and 8.1. Per report and suggestion by Mikael Krantz		2009-05-07 11:25:25 +00:00
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access	Request XLOG switch before writing checkpoint in pg_start_backup(). Otherwise	2009-05-07 11:25:25 +00:00
bootstrap	Start background writer during archive recovery. Background writer now performs	2009-02-18 15:58:41 +00:00
catalog	Fix estimate_num_groups() to not fail on PlaceHolderVars, per report from	2009-04-19 19:46:33 +00:00
commands	Modify CREATE DATABASE to enforce that the source database's encoding setting	2009-05-06 16:15:21 +00:00
executor	XMLATTRIBUTES() should send the attribute values through	2009-04-08 21:51:38 +00:00
foreign	Add the possibility to specify an explicit validator function for foreign-data	2009-02-24 10:06:36 +00:00
lib	Update copyright for 2009.	2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
libpq	Suppress some 'variable may be used uninitialized' warnings from gcc 4.4.	2009-04-23 23:25:13 +00:00
main	Update copyright for 2009.	2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
nodes	Fix planner to restore its previous level of intelligence about pushing	2009-04-16 20:42:16 +00:00
optimizer	Tweak distribute_qual_to_rels so that when we decide a pseudoconstant qual	2009-05-06 20:31:18 +00:00
parser	Make new complaint about unsafe Unicode literals include an error location.	2009-05-05 21:09:23 +00:00
po	Translation updates for 8.4 beta	2009-04-09 19:38:53 +00:00
port	Minor improvement: avoid assuming that GetLastError value cannot be	2009-05-05 21:51:46 +00:00
postmaster	Install a "dead man switch" to allow the postmaster to detect cases where	2009-05-05 19:59:00 +00:00
regex	Refactor backend makefiles to remove lots of duplicate code	2008-02-19 10:30:09 +00:00
rewrite	Get rid of the rather fuzzily defined FlattenedSubLink node type in favor of	2009-02-25 03:30:38 +00:00
snowball	Update copyright for 2009.	2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
storage	Install an atexit(2) callback that ensures that proc_exit's cleanup processing	2009-05-05 20:06:07 +00:00
tcop	Fix possible failures when a tuplestore switches from in-memory to on-disk	2009-03-27 18:30:21 +00:00
tsearch	Some languages have symbols with zero display's width or/and vowels/signs which	2009-03-11 16:03:40 +00:00
utils	Install a "dead man switch" to allow the postmaster to detect cases where	2009-05-05 19:59:00 +00:00
common.mk	Code coverage testing with gcov. Documentation is in the regression test	2008-09-05 12:11:18 +00:00
Makefile	Update copyright for 2009.	2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
nls.mk	Translation updates for 8.4 beta	2009-04-09 19:38:53 +00:00