Re: Streaming a base backup from master

On 3 September 2010 12:30, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 13:25, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>> On 3 September 2010 12:19, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> TODO:
>>>
>>> * We need a smarter way to do pg_start/stop_backup() with this. At the
>>> moment, you can only have one backup running at a time, but we shouldn't
>>> have that limitation with this built-in mechanism.
>>
>> Would it be possible to not require pg_start/stop_backup() for this
>> new feature? (yes, I'm probably missing something obvious here)
>
> You don't need to run it *manually*, but the process needs to run it
> automatically in the background for you. Which it does already in the
> suggested patch.

Ah, clearly I didn't read the patch in any detail.  Thanks :)

-- 
Thom Brown
Twitter: @darkixion
IRC (freenode): dark_ixion
Registered Linux user: #516935