On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > 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...
Yes, they will be excluded, provided the BlockReader processes have finished, because each BlockReader unlinks its save-file after it is done restoring buffers listed in it. Best regards, -- Gurjeet Singh http://gurjeet.singh.im/ EDB www.EnterpriseDB.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
