Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-13T21:32:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 13.01.2011 22:57, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 1/13/11 12:11 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> That's going to depend on the situation.  If the database fits in
>> memory, then it's just going to work.  If it fits on disk, it's less
>> obvious whether it'll be good or bad, but an arbitrary limitation here
>> doesn't serve us well.
>
> FWIW, if we had this feature right now in 9.0 we (PGX) would be using
> it.  We run into the case of DB in memory, multiple slaves fairly often
> these days.

Anyway, here's an updated patch with all the known issues fixed.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
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