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

On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 1:50 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

And one thing that concretely stinks about is the progress reporting
you get while the tests are running:

t/010_pg_basebackup.pl ... 142/?

That's definitely less informative than 142/330 or whatever.

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Robert Haas
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