On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Lucas <lucas75@gmail.com> wrote:
> The patch creates a "--lock-early" option which will make pg_dump to issue
> shared locks on all tables on the backup TOC on each parallel worker start.
> That way, the backup has a very small chance of failing. When it does,
> happen in the first few seconds of the backup job. My backup scripts (not
> included here) are aware of that and retries the backup in case of failure.
I wonder why we don't do this already ... and by default.
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