If you try to take an incremental backup on a standby and there hasn't been much system activity, it might fail. Document why this happens. Also add a hint to the error message you get, to make it more likely that users will understand what has gone wrong. Laurenz Albe and Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5468641ad821dad7aa3b2d65bf843146443a1b68.camel@cybertec.at
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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