Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Have you done any measurements to determine how much backup can be
>> skipped using this method for a typical workload, i.e. how many 16MB
>> page ranges are not modified in a typical span between incremental
>> backups?
> That seems entirely dependent on the specific workload.
Maybe, but it's a reasonable question. The benefit obtained from the
added complexity/overhead clearly goes to zero if you summarize too much,
and it's not at all clear that there's a sweet spot where you win. So
I'd want to see some measurements demonstrating that this is worthwhile.
regards, tom lane