Re: [RFC] Incremental backup v2: add backup profile to base backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [RFC] Incremental backup v2: add backup profile to base backup
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZGMJn-G8XsdscZgA+Ggr0Y=17K6n42BPcR8S+tZRMXtA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [RFC] Incremental backup v2: add backup profile to base backup  (Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>)
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Marco Nenciarini
<marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> wrote:
>> - Ship a table-of-contents file with a list relation files currently
>> present and the length of each in blocks.
>
> Having the size in bytes allow you to use the same format for non-block
> files. Am I missing any advantage of having the size in blocks over
> having the size in bytes?

Size in bytes would be fine, too.

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Robert Haas
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