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Don't use "cp -i" in the example WAL archive_command.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:13:25 +0000 (19:13 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:13:25 +0000 (19:13 -0400)
commit26996cf78e27e7bd0feb51a51a5a65308290bc5e
treea8e2d2c224fd754ead0b11f6ac17624c7b8b3580
parent6c320b8ab84584e8f21cf8341121a47b51e4d297
Don't use "cp -i" in the example WAL archive_command.

This is a dangerous example to provide because on machines with GNU cp,
it will silently do the wrong thing and risk archive corruption.  Worse,
during the 9.0 cycle somebody "improved" the discussion by removing the
warning that used to be there about that, and instead leaving the
impression that the command would work as desired on most Unixen.
It doesn't.  Try to rectify the damage by providing an example that is safe
most everywhere, and then noting that you can try cp -i if you want but
you'd better test that.

In back-patching this to all supported branches, I also added an example
command for Windows, which wasn't provided before 9.0.
doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml