Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file
Date: 2005-03-17 14:43:41
Message-ID: 200503171443.j2HEhfo28279@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots.
>
> This is a considerable disimprovement, since it replaces an example
> which is actually relevant to the point with one that isn't necessarily
> so. And why did you feel a need to remove the previous example anyway?

The text is now:

If your database is spread across multiple volumes (for example,
if you are using tablespaces) there may not be any way
to obtain exactly-simultaneous frozen snapshots of all the volumes.

I assume many more people are using tablespaces than moving pg_xlog.

You want two examples in that sentence?

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