Re: Streaming a base backup from master
Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2010-09-03T13:32:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> rsync? Might be easier to use that from day 1 (well, day 2) than to >> retrofit later. > > I'm not sure we want to depend on an external utility like that, > particularly one that users may not have installed. And I'm not sure > if that can be made to work over a libpq channel, either. But > certainly something with that functionality would be nice to have, > whether it ends up sharing code or not. No, I agree we don't want an external dependency (I was just bleating about needing tar on Windows). I was assuming/hoping there's a librsync somewhere... -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company