Andrew Dunstan: Using wal-e with Postgres on a non-standard port

I just discovered after a great deal of puzzlement and far too much time that if you run multiple instances of Postgres on a machine, and you're using wal-e for continuous backup, you'll need an entry for PGPORT or PGSERVICE in the environment directory for any instance that's not running on port 5432. Otherwise, wal-e will happily start and stop a backup on your port 5432 server and your non-5432 backups will be completely useless since they won't have a backup label.

Yet another example of the fact that any untested backup is not worth anything. If I hadn't tested this and found the problem we could have been left without a backup when we needed it.