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From	Ivan Zolotukhin
Subject	pg_start_backup() takes too long
Date	September 10, 2008 10:20:06
Msg-id	751e56400809100320t68128c22q3d7b0afb526d8dc6@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw
Responses	Re: pg_start_backup() takes too long (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List	pgsql-general

Hello,

What is the reason for

select pg_start_backup('label');

taking 10 minutes on not so loaded system even right after manual checkpoint?

From: Tommy Gildseth
Date: 10 September 2008, 10:10:01
Subject: "Stuck" query

From: "Willy-Bas Loos"
Date: 10 September 2008, 10:27:46
Subject: ms windows: 40% space taken double by ../pg_tblspc folder?