On 2019-04-09 17:48, Robert Haas wrote: > It will > probably be more efficient in many cases to instead scan all the WAL > generated since that LSN and extract block references from it, but > that is only possible if the server has all of that WAL available or > can somehow get it from the archive.
This could be a variant of a replication slot that preserves WAL between incremental backup runs. > 3. There should be a new tool that knows how to merge a full backup > with any number of incremental backups and produce a complete data > directory with no remaining partial files. Are there by any chance standard file formats and tools that describe a binary difference between directories? That would be really useful here. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
