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

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
index 5815fa44710f1a1fea73aa073cb22f5016dd33bf..a0150e5c48dce5cacee304438560c125a4a91921 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
@@ -893,6 +893,27 @@
     
    
   
+  
+   Incremental backup
+   
+    
+     A special base backup
+     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 .
+    
+    
+     To restore incremental backups the tool 
+     is used, which combines incremental backups with a base backup and
+     WAL to restore a
+     database cluster to
+     a consistent state.
+    
+    
+     For more information, see .
+    
+   
+  
 
   
    Insert
@@ -2157,6 +2178,20 @@
    
   
 
+  
+   WAL summarizer (process)
+   
+    
+     A special backend process
+     that summarizes WAL data for
+     incremental backups.
+    
+    
+     For more information, see .
+    
+   
+  
+
   
    WAL writer (process)
    

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index b804eb8b5efa5a7d2d43efce5ff5fb43c21cd62f..6e74138a69aeca0f1d556fd8ea79246e3728a197 100644 (file)
--- 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
        client backend, checkpointer,
        archiver, standalone backend,
        startup, walreceiver,
-       walsender and walwriter.
+       walsender, walwriter and
+       walsummarizer.
        In addition, background workers registered by extensions may have
        additional types.