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Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2011-01-11T19:50:40Z
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:

> Now that we have a basic over-the-wire base backup capability in walsender,
> it would be nice to allow taking multiple base backups at the same time.

I would prefer to be able to take a base backup from a standby, or is
that already possible?  What about cascading the wal shipping?  Maybe
those ideas are much bigger projects, but if I don't ask, I don't get to
know :)

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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