On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciar...@2ndquadrant.it> wrote: > I agree that a full backup does not need to include a profile. > > I've added the option to require the profile even for a full backup, as > it can be useful for backup softwares. We could remove the option and > build the profile only during incremental backups, if required. However, > I would avoid the needing to scan the whole backup to know the size of > the recovered data directory, hence the backup profile.
That doesn't seem to be buying you much. Calling stat() on every file in a directory tree is a pretty cheap operation. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers