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Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2011-01-11T20:02:07Z
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On 11.01.2011 21:50, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  writes:
>
>> Now that we have a basic over-the-wire base backup capability in walsender,
>> it would be nice to allow taking multiple base backups at the same time.
>
> I would prefer to be able to take a base backup from a standby, or is
> that already possible?  What about cascading the wal shipping?  Maybe
> those ideas are much bigger projects, but if I don't ask, I don't get to
> know :)

Yeah, those are bigger projects..

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