Re: block-level incremental backup

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:47 PM Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:13 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > + rc = system(copycmd);
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>> I don't think this patch should be calling system() in the first place.
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> So, do you mean we should just do fread() and fwrite() for the whole file?
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> I thought it is better if it was done by the OS itself instead of reading
> 1GB
> into the memory and writing the same to the file.
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> It is not necessary to read the whole 1GB into Ram.

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> Jeevan Chalke
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> EnterpriseDB Corporation
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