Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file
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Msg-id 200503171443.j2HEhfo28279@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots.
>
> This is a considerable disimprovement, since it replaces an example
> which is actually relevant to the point with one that isn't necessarily
> so.  And why did you feel a need to remove the previous example anyway?

The text is now:

   If your database is spread across multiple volumes (for example,
   if you are using tablespaces) there may not be any way
   to obtain exactly-simultaneous frozen snapshots of all the volumes.

I assume many more people are using tablespaces than moving pg_xlog.

You want two examples in that sentence?

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