On 7.1.2011 15:45, Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 02:15, Simon Riggs<si...@2ndquadrant.com>  wrote:

One very useful feature will be some way of confirming the number and
size of files to transfer, so that the base backup client can find out
the progress.
The patch already does this. Or rather, as it's coded it does this
once per tablespace.

It'll give you an approximation only of course, that can change,
In this case you actually could send exact numbers, as you need to only transfer the files up to the size they were when starting the base backup. The rest will be taken care of by
 WAL replay

  but
it should be enough for the purposes of a progress indication.


It would also be good to avoid writing a backup_label file at all on the
master, so there was no reason why multiple concurrent backups could not
be taken. The current coding allows for the idea that the start and stop
might be in different sessions, whereas here we know we are in one
session.
Yeah, I have that on the todo list suggested by Heikki. I consider it
a later phase though.




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