On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> The "fast or slow" seems to lead users to always choose "fast". Instead, >> what about "fast or smooth", "fast or spread" or "immediate or delayed"? > > Hmm. "fast or spread" seems reasonable to me. And I want to use "fast" > for the fast version, because that's what we call it when you use > pg_start_backup(). I'll go change it to spread for now - it's the one > I can find used in the docs.
Fair enough. >> What if pg_basebackup receives a signal while doing a backup? >> For example, users might do Ctrl-C to cancel the long-running backup. >> We should define a signal handler and send a Terminate message >> to the server to cancel the backup? > > Nah, we'll just disconnect and it'll deal with things that way. Just > like we do with e.g. pg_dump. I don't see the need to complicate it > with that. Okay. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
