Re: block-level incremental backup

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-04-18T17:00:53Z
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Hi,

On 2019-04-18 11:34:32 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 05:32:57PM +0200, David Fetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:57:35AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Also, instead of storing the file name and block number in the modblock
> > > file, using the database oid, relfilenode, and block number (3 int32
> > > values) should be sufficient.
> > 
> > Would doing it that way constrain the design of new table access
> > methods in some meaningful way?
> 
> I think these are the values used in WAL, so I assume table access
> methods already have to map to those, unless they use their own.
> I actually don't know.

I don't think it'd be a meaningful restriction. Given that we use those
for shared_buffer descriptors, WAL etc.

Greetings,

Andres Freund