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Re: Streaming a base backup from master

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Date: 2010-09-03T13:29:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

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Robert Haas
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