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Re: Patch pg_is_in_backup()

Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>

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From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>, Gilles Darold <gilles.darold@dalibo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-02-03T02:31:43Z
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On 02-02-2012 20:06, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If there is more than one concurrent backup running, which one do you
> return? The first one or the latest one? Or perhaps you need an
> interface thta can return them all...
> 
IMHO, pg_is_in_backup() should return true if one or more backup copies are
running. As about returning the backup timestamp, we could return an array
like array[['label_1', '2012-01-28 02:00:01 BRST'], ['label_2', '2012-01-28
03:40:34 BRST']] or NULL if none.


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