On: Introducing Heroku Fork

[fleaflicker]

Copies the source app's Heroku Postgres data, if present.

Won't that take a prohibitively long time for large apps?

[jmathai → fleaflicker]

At least they give fair warning..

https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/comm...

[Aqua_Geek → fleaflicker]

I have 7GB of data sitting in one of their Postgres instances right now. It only takes a couple minutes to backup and restore to a new db, so I guess it depends on how you'd define "prohibitively long."

[jfarmer → fleaflicker]

It's remarkably fast. The network transfer is AWS-to-AWS if you do it right, so the only time is creating the backup and populating the new DB. It takes almost no time for a ~5GB database I'm using.