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Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-20T20:15:28Z
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Sending them a signal seems like a promising approach, but the trick
> is guaranteeing that they've actually acted on it before you start the
> checkpoint.

How much using a latch here would help?  Or be overkill?

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Dimitri Fontaine
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