On 21.02.2011 21:33, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> What's the reason for this restriction?
>> if (databaseId != MyDatabaseId)
>> ereport(ERROR,
>> (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
>> errmsg("cannot import snapshot from a different database")));
>
> I just couldn't think of a use case for it and so didn't want to
> introduce a feature that we might have to support in the future then.
Hmm, here's one: getting a consistent snapshot of all databases in
pg_dumpall. Not sure how useful that is..
-- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
