Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (MaybeOFFTOPIC) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
Subject Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (MaybeOFFTOPIC)
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Msg-id E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA57902685F93@m0143.s-mxs.net
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In response to Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] Streaming Onlinebackup (MaybeOFFTOPIC)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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> A nice improvement on that would be to have a "rearchive_command" to
> allow to sync the new bytes written since a previous archive_command
(so
> it needs a new placeholder "start from this byte").  This allows
writing
> dd seek=%s skip=%s count=%b bs=1

But after a log switch nothing is filling that rest anymore.
Maybe this goes too much in the direction of a "streaming the log"
implementation,
which is imho better suited to ship transactions somewhere else as soon
as possible.

Andreas


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