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| author | Robert Haas | 2024-01-18 14:25:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Robert Haas | 2024-01-18 14:25:28 +0000 |
| commit | 7b1dbf0a8d1d4e1e6d01a76dc45a3216e8a16d94 (patch) | |
| tree | 4abe904a5e147164e60d0a814c4b163cfaa79a52 | |
| parent | 27d04ed5310ad33dd3364322ae53ea685b28a8b6 (diff) | |
More documentation updates for incremental backup.
Add new terms to glossary. Add a reference to walsummarizer
to monitoring.sgml.
Matthias van de Meent and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjhdVCqEe_qqEok3NA6DwUdOGSBjAxzmYdAqiaaH1uRcg@mail.gmail.com
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml | 3 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml index 5815fa44710..a0150e5c48d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml @@ -893,6 +893,27 @@ </para> </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="glossary-incremental-backup"> + <glossterm>Incremental backup</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para> + A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-basebackup">base backup</glossterm> + that for some files may contain only those pages that were modified since + a previous backup, as opposed to the full contents of every file. Like + base backups, it is generated by the tool <xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"/>. + </para> + <para> + To restore incremental backups the tool <xref linkend="app-pgcombinebackup"/> + is used, which combines incremental backups with a base backup and + <glossterm linkend="glossary-wal">WAL</glossterm> to restore a + <glossterm linkend="glossary-db-cluster">database cluster</glossterm> to + a consistent state. + </para> + <para> + For more information, see <xref linkend="backup-incremental-backup"/>. + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> <glossentry id="glossary-insert"> <glossterm>Insert</glossterm> @@ -2157,6 +2178,20 @@ </glossdef> </glossentry> + <glossentry id="glossary-wal-summarizer"> + <glossterm>WAL summarizer (process)</glossterm> + <glossdef> + <para> + A special <glossterm linkend="glossary-backend">backend process</glossterm> + that summarizes WAL data for + <glossterm linkend="glossary-incremental-backup">incremental backups</glossterm>. + </para> + <para> + For more information, see <xref linkend="runtime-config-wal-summarization"/>. + </para> + </glossdef> + </glossentry> + <glossentry id="glossary-wal-writer"> <glossterm>WAL writer (process)</glossterm> <glossdef> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index b804eb8b5ef..6e74138a69a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml @@ -999,7 +999,8 @@ postgres 27093 0.0 0.0 30096 2752 ? Ss 11:34 0:00 postgres: ser <literal>client backend</literal>, <literal>checkpointer</literal>, <literal>archiver</literal>, <literal>standalone backend</literal>, <literal>startup</literal>, <literal>walreceiver</literal>, - <literal>walsender</literal> and <literal>walwriter</literal>. + <literal>walsender</literal>, <literal>walwriter</literal> and + <literal>walsummarizer</literal>. In addition, background workers registered by extensions may have additional types. </para></entry> |