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Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-11T22:06:34Z
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On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> The whole thing just seems too fragile and dangerous to be worth dealing
> with given that actual usage will be a corner case.  *I* sure wouldn't
> trust it to work when the chips were down.

I hope this assessment proves to be incorrect, because like Magnus and Heikki, I think this will be a major usability improvement. It takes us from "there's a way to do that" to "it just works".

...Robert