On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > > But why in the world would you want to stop the slave to do it? ISTM > > we would want to arrange things so that you can copy the slave's files > > while it continues replicating, just as with a standard base backup. > > You can do that, of course, but my thinking was that people would regard > the technique as "unsupported", so I added a quick flag as a prototype.
An advantage to being able to stop the server is that you could have one server processing backups for multiple PostgreSQL clusters by going through them 1 (or more likely, 2, 4, etc) at a time, essentially providing N+1 capability. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
