Re: Don't include MMAP DSM's transient files in basebackup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Don't include MMAP DSM's transient files in basebackup
Date
Msg-id 20160707175255.5jgyte72dszqjgu7@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Don't include MMAP DSM's transient files in basebackup  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On 2016-07-07 08:49:18 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thursday, July 7, 2016, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 2016-07-06 16:46:53 +0300, Oskari Saarenmaa wrote:
> > > The files are not useful when restoring a backup and would be
> > automatically
> > > deleted on startup anyway.  Also deleted an out-of-date comment in dsm.c.
> >
> > No arguments against the change. But I am wondering how you ran into
> > this - the mmap dsm backend really should pretty much never be used...
> >
> >
> Unfortunately I think that's still what happens by default if you use
> pg_upgradecluster on debian :(

Ugh. Sounds like that should better be fixed before 9.6. It'll make
parallel query seriously slower.

Andres



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