All the ERROR_* fields are removed in favor of a more simple layer
made of ERROR, FATAL, PANIC. The two last ones are not actually used
yet, thought there should be some code paths that would need more
polishing on this matter.
The error message emitted before leaving should be fine to let the
user know what is happening.
During the execution of the "delete" command, the oldest start LSN is saved
and used to determine what is the oldest WAL segment that needs to be kept
for the existing backups. Like pg_archivecleanup, the implemented logic
ignores the timeline part of the WAL segment name, ensuring that a segment
from a parent timeline will not be removed prematurely. This logic could
be made more complicated regarding this matter, but in order to take backups
from a node on a given timeline this is far enough.
This commit improves the performance of page-level, or differential
backup, by not having to scan anymore all the pages of a relation file,
something that can be very long on large data sets, but by scanning the
list of blocks changed by WAL records since the last full or differential
backup.
As a restriction and to avoid potential data corruption should hint-bit
updates occur on a page, backups can only be taken from a server that has
wal_log_hints or data checksums enabled.
Base patch by Yury Zhuravlev, heavily modified by me.
--debug and --verbose had actually the same meaning as they were aimed
at giving to the user information regarding how the process is running,
hence both options are merged into --verbose and use elog(LOG) to decide
if a given message should be printed out depending on the verbosity of
the call. This makes a couple of routines more readable as they do not
depend on any boolean checks.
The "_()" have been removed from the code, those are aimed at being used
for translation but having them mandatorily in each log message is just
useless noise. If needed, pgut.c should be updated in consequence to
have a more portable facility.
At the same time this commit takes care of putting into correct shape
some code paths more in-line with PostgreSQL policy. There are surely
more of this kind of ugly stuff but at this stage things are more simple
and more manageable.
This mode is not actually necessary if we consider that the core of
pg_rman is the obtention of differential and full backups, the server
being afterwards in charge to recover necessary WAL segments from the
archive.
Regression tests and documentation are updated in accordance to the
changes.
In order to keep only the core of pg_rman for incremental/differential
backup, this looks necessary and makes the code more simple. Including
server log files in a backup could be subject to discussion as well,
as for example a Postgres base backup does not include them, just
because in this case server instance is not aware of the log files.
The previous algorithm was smart enough to remove full backups older
than the given number of generations, but not enough to remove
incremental and archive backups. This resulted in keeping in the backup
list a set of incremental and archive backups older than the latest
full backup allowed. As it is useless to keep them, the deletion
algorithm is made smarter to take that into account and remove all of
them cleanly only when necessary.
Backups could be removed even if generation number was set to infinite
without caring of the day threashold calculated. Backups are removed
if they either satisfy the generation or the day threshold.
Having files satisfying both conditions seems somewhat awkward, as users
would usually choose either the number of generations to keep or the
amount of days to keep the files. Hence deletion of a backup is bypassed
only when both parameters are set to infinite.
At the same time correct some typos and incorrections in the deletion
code.
Use --standby-host and --standby-port, if backup is getting from standby.
- Add --hard-copy restore option.
The option can be used to copy archive WAL to archive directory instead of symlink.
git-svn-id: http://pg-rman.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@77 182aca00-e38e-11de-a668-6fd11605f5ce
