On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 12:38 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Gained. Code complexity.
Hardly, patch is very small. I would recognise that as a factor otherwise. > What I see is a recipe for inconsistent, un-restorable backups without a > user realizing what they have done. I agree on the backup side, but then who would extract just a portion of their data for backup? It would be no backup at all. If you did use this as part of an incremental backup scheme, then they would have to test it (just like any backup method). Incremental backups rarely have self-consistency except as part of a greater whole. As a dev tool it makes sense. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers