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Re: Server-side base backup: why superuser, not pg_write_server_files?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-02-02T18:50:17Z
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Well, if someone wants to step up and provide a patch that changes 'em
> all at once, that'd be great.  But we've discussed this before and
> nothing's happened.

I mean, I don't understand why it's even better. And I would go so far
as to say that if nobody can be bothered to do the work to convert
everything at once, it probably isn't better.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Fix server crash bug in 'server' backup target.

  2. Adjust server-side backup to depend on pg_write_server_files.