Re: block-level incremental backup

From: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Anastasia Lubennikova <a(dot)lubennikova(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: block-level incremental backup
Date: 2019-08-07 09:46:43
Message-ID: CAM2+6=WV8_Lp9Fng3o8jKri3Wa21_0oxh6dunE5qdXvSWZQ6SQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:13 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > + rc = system(copycmd);
>
> I don't think this patch should be calling system() in the first place.
>

So, do you mean we should just do fread() and fwrite() for the whole file?

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.

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

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Jeevan Chalke
Technical Architect, Product Development
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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