PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups

Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-Incremental-Backups

[KoenDG]

For postgres 17, ok.

Old logic says: no considered stable until the first dot release. Though for something as important as backups, I'd give it another major release, yes?

[jrdoane]

For postgres 17, ok.

Old logic says: no considered stable until the first dot release. Though for something as important as backups, I'd give it another major release, yes?

I guess that falls in line with not buying the first generation of a product unless you want to be paying that early adopter tax.

[SeeM]

Wasn't that the case since forever? pgbasebackup for a full backup and walarchives for incremental? For a very big databases this probably will cut some time running pgbasebackup, but without those archived transaction logs, it is still a one point in time state of data.