On 10/28/21 10:51, Ron wrote:
>>
>> Except we have no way of knowing what the situation is. I prefer not
>> to assume a context.
>
> You make it sound like incremental (and differential) backups are some
> complicated thing that needs context. That's utter and complete rubbish
> in every Enterprise RDBMS except Postgresql.
>
This is Postgres so we do need context.
Also you have not defined what you consider incremental backup? I for
one would put this:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/continuous-archiving.html
forward as a candidate.
> Something like "BACKUP DATABASE (DIFFERENTIAL) foo TO foo.bak;" should
> be a fundamental feature of every RDBMS that claims to be enterprise class.
Knock your self out:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
