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.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/