Re: Backup throttling

Antonin Houska <antonin.houska@gmail.com>

From: Antonin Houska <antonin.houska@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-09-03T21:12:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 09/03/2013 06:56 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>> +			/*
>> +			 * Only the following suffixes are allowed. It's not too useful to
>> +			 * restrict the rate to gigabytes: such a rate will probably bring
>> +			 * significant impact on the master anyway, so the throttling
>> +			 * won't help much.
>> +			 */
>> +		case 'g':
>> +			factor <<= 10;
> 
> I don't understand why you allow a 'g' here, given the comment above ...
> but in any case it should be G.
> 

This reflects my hesitation whether GB should be accepted as a unit or
not. I'll probably remove this suffix.

(Will fix the other findings too,)

Thanks,
Tony