Re: Streaming base backups

> When do the standby launch its walreceiver? It would be extra-nice for
> the base backup tool to optionally continue streaming WALs until the
> standby starts doing it itself, so that wal_keep_segments is really
> deprecated.  No idea how feasible that is, though.

Good point. I have been always wondering why we can't use exiting WAL
transporting infrastructure for sending/receiving WAL archive
segments in streaming replication.
If my memory serves, Fujii has already proposed such an idea but was
rejected for some reason I don't understand.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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