Re: File based Incremental backup v8

On 2015-01-29 12:57:22 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> The issues here are similar to those in
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150120152819.GC24381@alap3.anarazel.de
> - basically, I think we need to make CREATE DATABASE and ALTER
> DATABASE .. SET TABLESPACE fully WAL-logged operations, or this is
> never going to work right.  If we're not going to allow that, we need
> to disallow hot backups while those operations are in progress.

Yea, the current way is just a hack from the dark ages. Which has some
advantages, true, but I don't think they outweight the disadvantages. I
hope to find time to develop a patch to make those properly WAL logged
(for master) sometime not too far away.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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