Re: Streaming a base backup from master

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Streaming a base backup from master
Date: 2010-09-03 12:28:58
Message-ID: 4C80EA0A.1060001@enterprisedb.com
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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.

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

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