Re: pg_dump --snapshot

On 6 May 2013 19:35, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

> It certainly sounds interesting and I like the idea of it, but perhaps
> we need a different mechanism than just passing in a raw snapshot, to
> address the concerns that Tom raised.

It does *not* pass in a raw snapshot. All it does is to allow pg_dump
to use an API that is already exposed by the backend for this very
purpose, one that has been in Postgres since 9.2.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-SNAPSHOT-SYNCHRONIZATION

Minor patch, no amazing new functionality, no drama.

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