Re: detecting binary backup in progress

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On 05/31/2013 10:42 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2013-05-31 10:38:56 -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
>> I can check for the presence of $PGDATA/backup_label in order to
>> detect a backup in progress (i.e. pg_start_backup() has been run
>> and pg_stop_backup() has not yet been run).
>>
>> However there is a period of time after pg_start_backup() is
>> first executed to when it completes, during which backup_label
>> file does not exist yet, but the backup has essentially been
>> started. Is there any way to detect this state?
>
> 9.3 has pg_is_in_backup() for that. I don't think there's a way to
> detect it safely without C code before that.

Good to know, although it won't help me much in my current scenario ;-)

Thanks,

Joe

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