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Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c index 3027129eb7c..65484b6f70d 100644 --- a/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c +++ b/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2009, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.334 2009/03/11 23:19:24 tgl Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.335 2009/04/07 00:31:26 tgl Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -6914,6 +6914,7 @@ Datum pg_start_backup(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { text *backupid = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0); + bool fast = PG_GETARG_BOOL(1); char *backupidstr; XLogRecPtr checkpointloc; XLogRecPtr startpoint; @@ -6983,9 +6984,11 @@ pg_start_backup(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) * have different checkpoint positions and hence different history * file names, even if nothing happened in between. * - * We don't use CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE, hence this can take awhile. + * We use CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE only if requested by user (via + * passing fast = true). Otherwise this can take awhile. */ - RequestCheckpoint(CHECKPOINT_FORCE | CHECKPOINT_WAIT); + RequestCheckpoint(CHECKPOINT_FORCE | CHECKPOINT_WAIT | + (fast ? CHECKPOINT_IMMEDIATE : 0)); /* * Now we need to fetch the checkpoint record location, and also its |