Re: block-level incremental backup

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-04-10T19:42:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Don't call data type input functions in GUC check hooks

On 2019-04-10 17:31, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think the way to think about this problem, or at least the way I
> think about this problem, is that we need to decide whether want
> file-level incremental backup, block-level incremental backup, or
> byte-level incremental backup.

That is a great analysis.  Seems like block-level is the preferred way
forward.

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