Re: Tracking of page changes for backup purposes. PTRACK [POC]

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tracking of page changes for backup purposes. PTRACK [POC]
Date: 2017-12-20 20:29:19
Message-ID: CAFj8pRBC5WutOAvvLy8JvN4NJzmi7xMOSR+ro0spe6uGGK5vUw@mail.gmail.com
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2017-12-20 21:18 GMT+01:00 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> > So I'm somewhat hesitant to proclaim option 5 as the clear winner,
> here.
> >>
> >> I agree. I think (4) is better.
> >
> > Can depends on load? For smaller intensive updated databases the 5 can be
> > optimal, for large less updated databases the 4 can be better.
>
> It seems to me that the difference is that (4) tracks which pages have
> changed in the background, and (5) does it in the foreground. Why
> would we want the latter?
>

Isn't more effective hold this info in Postgres than in backup sw? Then any
backup sw can use this implementation.

> --
> Robert Haas
> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>

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