Re: Proposing pg_hibernate

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet(at)singh(dot)im>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposing pg_hibernate
Date: 2014-06-04 18:52:44
Message-ID: 20140604185244.GA785@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-06-04 14:50:39 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> The thing I was concerned about is that the system might have been in
> recovery for months. What was hot at the time the base backup was
> taken seems like a poor guide to what will be hot at the time of
> promotion. Consider a history table, for example: the pages at the
> end, which have just been written, are much more likely to be useful
> than anything earlier.

I'd assumed that the hibernation files would simply be excluded from the
basebackup...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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