Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> If you must have this then make pg_basebackup copy xlog files >> regularly during the backup. That way your backup can take forever and >> your primary disk won't fill up. In many cases it actually will take >> forever, but at least we don't take down the primary. > > There is a patch to do something like that as well sitting on the CF > page. I don't believe one necessarily excludes the other.
I'm not getting why we need the later one when we have this older one? -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers