On 03/09/10 15:16, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>  wrote:
>> * We need a smarter way to do pg_start/stop_backup() with this. At the
>> moment, you can only have one backup running at a time, but we shouldn't
>> have that limitation with this built-in mechanism.
>
> Well there's no particular reason we couldn't support having multiple
> pg_start_backup() pending either. It's just not usually something
> people have need so far.

The backup label file makes that hard. There can be only one at a time.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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