| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, 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: | 2013-06-01 08:05:57 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqQd0pLAR8AoNtWafUtEQiRUiqcpZe1epvKmQMteEvv6Fg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:
> 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.
>
Same here. Does it mean taking a backup not with pg_basebackup but by
executing yourself external operations between pg_start/stop_backup calls?
--
Michael
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