Allow BASE_BACKUP to be throttled

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Commit: ef5856fd9b77ef9d0d0c31fb314bb61bbfb1d704
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2014-02-27T21:55:57Z
Releases: 9.4.0
Allow BASE_BACKUP to be throttled

A new MAX_RATE option allows imposing a limit to the network transfer
rate from the server side.  This is useful to limit the stress that
taking a base backup has on the server.

pg_basebackup is now able to specify a value to the server, too.

Author: Antonin Houska

Patch reviewed by Stefan Radomski, Andres Freund, Zoltán Böszörményi,
Fujii Masao, and Álvaro Herrera.

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