Jason Pell

Is this PR supposed to be rebased on latest master, as there seems to be a commit with the same description? `Refactor LSN`

So im not sure what I should be cherry picking onto latest master to test this?

cool, I will take a look at this tomorrow (melbourne oz time)!

Hi, Im testing this and getting errors upon trying to stop the backup. ``` Sep 15 02:38:45 d-vgt-005 pghoard[40235]: cursor.execute("SELECT pg_start_backup(%s, true)", [backup_end_name]) Sep 15 02:38:45 d-vgt-005 pghoard[40235]: psycopg2.errors.ObjectNotInPrerequisiteState: a...

On a production server I received this error when starting a new base backup, im not sure why, perhaps its just a setup issue? On this particular server, we are...

In case its just a state issue with my server, I am going to go back to using pg_receivewal and make sure that is working, before again switching to standalone...

So im not sure why, but the start wal segment is wrong or else there is something wrong with how the walreceiver is configured, because there are wal segments missing...

In case its of use, here is the log of the base backup, perhaps we need to wait a little while after the wal receiver is started before the pg...

@rdunklau see above my experience of testing this feature, hopefully its possible to resolve the issues? Thanks again for the effort to provide an alternative, im keen to re-test when...

We are on 10