From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: julyanto SUTANDANG <julyanto@equnix.co.id>
Cc: Dinesh Chandra 12108 <Dinesh.Chandra@cyient.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Backup taking long time !!!
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:49:43 -0500
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* Simon Riggs (simon@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> On 23 January 2017 at 17:12, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just to make sure anyone reading the mailing list archives isn't
> >> confused, running pg_start_backup does *not* make PG stop writing to
> >> BASEDIR (or DATADIR, or anything, really). PG *will* continue to write
> >> data into BASEDIR after pg_start_backup has been called.
> >
> > Correct. Unfortunately it is a very common myth that it does cause
> > PostgreSQL to stop writing to the base dir.
>
> Never heard that one before. Wow. Who's been saying that?
Well, this conversation started because of such a comment, so at least
one person on this thread (though I believe that's been clarified
sufficiently now).
> It's taken me years to hunt down all invalid backup memes and terminate them.
A never-ending and thankless task, so, my thanks to you for your
efforts. :)
> Never fails to surprise me how many people don't read the docs.
+1MM.
Thanks again!
Stephen
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