From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: daveg <daveg@sonic.net>
Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Cc: hari@efrontier.com
Subject: Re: pg_dump lock timeout
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:56:26 -0700
Message-ID: <20080702155626.GC30328@fetter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080511130035.GW5673@sonic.net>
References: <20080511113047.GV5673@sonic.net>
<20080511130035.GW5673@sonic.net>
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:00:35AM -0700, David Gould wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:30:47AM -0700, daveg wrote:
> >
> > Attached is a patch to add a commandline option to pg_dump to
> > limit how long pg_dump will wait for locks during startup.
>
> Ooops, really attached this time.
Can we see about getting this into the July commitfest? Dave has
presented a use case complete with logs where having this could have
prevented a failed backup and consequent data loss.
Cheers,
David.
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Subject: Re: pg_dump lock timeout
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