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Re: is the base backup protocol used by out-of-core tools?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-02-09T13:01:41Z
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On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:14 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi
<horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for pining.  AFAICS, as you see, pg_rman doesn't talk
> basebackup protocol (nor even pg_basebackup command) as it supports
> inremental backup.  So there's no issue about the removal of old
> syntax on our side.

Cool. Since the verdict here seems pretty unanimous and we've heard
from a good number of backup tool authors, I'll give this another day
or so and then commit, unless objections emerge before then.

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

Commits

  1. Remove server support for the previous base backup protocol.

  2. Remove server support for old BASE_BACKUP command syntax.

  3. Modify pg_basebackup to use a new COPY subprotocol for base backups.

  4. Flexible options for BASE_BACKUP.