Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups
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Msg-id FD0A7B5B-F4E1-449E-925B-EBAE1A8A6223@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The whole thing just seems too fragile and dangerous to be worth dealing
> with given that actual usage will be a corner case.  *I* sure wouldn't
> trust it to work when the chips were down.

I hope this assessment proves to be incorrect, because like Magnus and Heikki, I think this will be a major usability
improvement.It takes us from "there's a way to do that" to "it just works". 

...Robert

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