Re: Streaming base backups

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> BTW, I just spotted a small race condition between creating a new table 
> space and base backup. We take a snapshot of all the tablespaces in 
> pg_tblspc before calling pg_start_backup(). If someone creates a new 
> tablespace and puts some data in it in the window between base backup 
> acquiring the list tablespaces and starting the backup, the new 
> tablespace won't be included in the backup.

So what?  The needed actions will be covered by WAL replay.
        regards, tom lane