Re: Patch pg_is_in_backup()

From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Gilles Darold <gilles(dot)darold(at)dalibo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch pg_is_in_backup()
Date: 2012-02-03 02:31:43
Message-ID: 4F2B470F.5070107@timbira.com
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On 02-02-2012 20:06, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If there is more than one concurrent backup running, which one do you
> return? The first one or the latest one? Or perhaps you need an
> interface thta can return them all...
>
IMHO, pg_is_in_backup() should return true if one or more backup copies are
running. As about returning the backup timestamp, we could return an array
like array[['label_1', '2012-01-28 02:00:01 BRST'], ['label_2', '2012-01-28
03:40:34 BRST']] or NULL if none.

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