Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

On 25.01.2011 06:02, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>> Hmm, perhaps the code would be more readable if instead of the
>> forcePageWrites counter that counts exclusive and non-exclusive backups, and
>> an exclusiveBackup boolean indicating if one of the in-progress backups is
>> an exclusive one, we had a counter that only counts non-exclusive backups,
>> plus a boolean indicating if an exclusive backup is in progress in addition
>> to them.
>>
>> Attached is a patch for that (against master branch, including only xlog.c).
>
> I read this patch and previous-posted one. Those look good.
>
> Comments:
>
> + * do_pg_start_backup is the workhorse of the user-visible pg_stop_backup()
> + * function.
>
> Typo: s/do_pg_start_backup/do_pg_stop_backup
>
> It's helpful to explain about this behavior in pg_basebackup.sgml or elsewhere.

Thanks. I've committed this now, fixing that, and hopefully all the 
other issues mentioned in this thread.

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