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Re: Streaming a base backup from master

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-03T16:09:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> IOW, what I'd like to see is protocol extensions that allow an external
> copy of rsync to be invoked; not build in rsync, or tar, or anything
> else that we could get off-the-shelf.

I'd much rather use an existing library to implement it than call out to
some external utility.  That said, I'm about as thrilled with libtar as
librsync after a bit of googling around. :/

	Thanks,

		Stephen