Re: Streaming base backups

On 05.01.2011 15:54, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> I've implemented a frontend for this in pg_streamrecv, based on the assumption
> that we wanted to include this in bin/ for 9.1 - and that it seems like a
> reasonable place to put it. This can obviously be moved elsewhere if we want to.
> That code needs a lot more cleanup, but I wanted to make sure I got the backend
> patch out for review quickly. You can find the current WIP branch for
> pg_streamrecv on my github page at https://github.com/mhagander/pg_streamrecv,
> in the branch "baserecv". I'll be posting that as a separate patch once it's
> been a bit more cleaned up (it does work now if you want to test it, though).

One more thing, now that I've played a bit with pg_streamrecv:

I find it strange that the data directory must exist when you call
pg_streamrecv in base-backup mode. I would expect it to work like
initdb, and create the directory if it doesn't exist.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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