Re: [HACKERS] Using pg_rewind for differential backup

2014-12-03 Thread Sameer Kumar
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Heikki Linnakangas > wrote: > > It also would be quite straightforward to write a separate tool to do > just > > that. Would be better than conflating pg_rewind with this. You could use > > pg_rewind as the bas

Re: [HACKERS] Using pg_rewind for differential backup

2014-12-02 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > It also would be quite straightforward to write a separate tool to do just > that. Would be better than conflating pg_rewind with this. You could use > pg_rewind as the basis for it - it's under the same license as PostgreSQL. If we had

Re: [HACKERS] Using pg_rewind for differential backup

2014-11-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 11/28/2014 09:30 AM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sameer Kumar wrote: Can we tweak pg_rewind to take differential backups in PostgreSQL? I was wondering can we hack the pg_rewind code to print the details of the file which have been modified compared to a target s

Re: [HACKERS] Using pg_rewind for differential backup

2014-11-27 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Sameer Kumar wrote: > Can we tweak pg_rewind to take differential backups in PostgreSQL? > I was wondering can we hack the pg_rewind code to print the details of the > file which have been modified compared to a target server. The list output > can then be used fo