Backend support for streaming base backups

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Commit: 0eb59c4591ecf4f1c69d89e9f043a18e7dce9e47
Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2011-01-10T13:04:19Z
Releases: 9.1.0
Backend support for streaming base backups

Add BASE_BACKUP command to walsender, allowing it to stream a
base backup to the client (in tar format). The syntax is still
far from ideal, that will be fixed in the switch to use a proper
grammar for walsender.

No client included yet, will come as a separate commit.

Magnus Hagander and Heikki Linnakangas

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