Re: block-level incremental backup

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: block-level incremental backup
Date: 2019-04-18 15:34:32
Message-ID: 20190418153432.wdwsuau7igr2eyry@momjian.us
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 05:32:57PM +0200, David Fetter wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:57:35AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Also, instead of storing the file name and block number in the modblock
> > file, using the database oid, relfilenode, and block number (3 int32
> > values) should be sufficient.
>
> Would doing it that way constrain the design of new table access
> methods in some meaningful way?

I think these are the values used in WAL, so I assume table access
methods already have to map to those, unless they use their own.
I actually don't know.

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