Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> The "fast or slow" seems to lead users to always choose "fast". Instead,
>> what about "fast or smooth", "fast or spread" or "immediate or delayed"?
>
> Hmm. "fast or spread" seems reasonable to me. And I want to use "fast"
> for the fast version, because that's what we call it when you use
> pg_start_backup(). I'll go change it to spread for now  - it's the one
> I can find used in the docs.

Fair enough.

>> What if pg_basebackup receives a signal while doing a backup?
>> For example, users might do Ctrl-C to cancel the long-running backup.
>> We should define a signal handler and send a Terminate message
>> to the server to cancel the backup?
>
> Nah, we'll just disconnect and it'll deal with things that way. Just
> like we do with e.g. pg_dump. I don't see the need to complicate it
> with that.

Okay.

Regards,

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