On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > As pointed out in > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160327232509.v5wgac5vskuse...@awork2.anarazel.de > our backup tools (i.e. pg_basebackup, pg_dump[all]), currently don't > make any efforts to ensure their output is durable. > > I think for backup tools of possibly critical data, that's pretty much > unaceptable.
Definitely agreed, once a backup/dump has been taken and those utilities exit, we had better ensure that they are durably on disk. For pg_basebackup and pg_dump, as everything except pg_dump/plain require a target directory for the location of the output result, we really can make things better. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
