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Document that not backing up postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts might
help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused. Backpatch to 9.1.
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of mistakes when restoring. This is easy to arrange if
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<filename>pg_xlog/</> is a symbolic link pointing to someplace outside
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the cluster directory, which is a common setup anyway for performance
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reasons.
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reasons. You might also want to exclude <filename>postmaster.pid</>
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and <filename>postmaster.opts</>, which record information
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about the running <application>postmaster</>, not about the
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<application>postmaster</> which will eventually use this backup.
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(These files can confuse <application>pg_ctl</>.)
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