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Re: Streaming a base backup from master

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2010-09-03T12:28:58Z
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On 03/09/10 15:16, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>> * We need a smarter way to do pg_start/stop_backup() with this. At the
>> moment, you can only have one backup running at a time, but we shouldn't
>> have that limitation with this built-in mechanism.
>
> Well there's no particular reason we couldn't support having multiple
> pg_start_backup() pending either. It's just not usually something
> people have need so far.

The backup label file makes that hard. There can be only one at a time.

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