"J. R. Nield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (In particular, I *strongly* object to using the buffer manager at all >> for reading files for backup. That's pretty much guaranteed to blow out >> buffer cache. Use plain OS-level file reads. An OS directory search >> will do fine for finding what you need to read, too.)
> How do you get atomic block copies otherwise? Eh? The kernel does that for you, as long as you're reading the same-size blocks that the backends are writing, no? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])