X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED1B032AB86 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:25:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34958-02 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F29CB32AB85 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:25:17 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 1222 invoked by uid 65534); 3 Oct 2004 11:25:16 -0000 Received: from dsl-213-023-250-175.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (213.23.250.175) by mail.gmx.net (mp004) with SMTP; 03 Oct 2004 13:25:16 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: "Dave Page" , "John Hansen" , "Devrim GUNDUZ" Subject: Re: Problem with mirrorring Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:25:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: "PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410031325.14847.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200410/32 X-Sequence-Number: 5426 Dave Page wrote: > Of course, how it does that is a mystery to me - without fully > comparing both versions, how can it create a diff? I guess that's > what made it PhD material... It doesn't create a diff. It computes checksums for pieces of the file and transfers those. Apparently, though, it first checks the modification time before doing all that checksum stuff. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/