Re: detecting binary backup in progress

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Hackers (PostgreSQL)" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: detecting binary backup in progress
Date: 2013-05-31 19:55:55
Message-ID: 20130531195554.GK2548@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> The manual says:
> >pg_is_in_backup() bool True if an on-line exclusive backup is still in progress.
>
> So clearly that is intentional. That could use some rephrasing,
> though; a layman won't know what an "exclusive backup" is.

Heck, I don't understand what it is either.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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