Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups
Date: 2011-01-11 22:06:34
Message-ID: FD0A7B5B-F4E1-449E-925B-EBAE1A8A6223@gmail.com
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On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> The whole thing just seems too fragile and dangerous to be worth dealing
> with given that actual usage will be a corner case. *I* sure wouldn't
> trust it to work when the chips were down.

I hope this assessment proves to be incorrect, because like Magnus and Heikki, I think this will be a major usability improvement. It takes us from "there's a way to do that" to "it just works".

...Robert

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