Re: Streaming a base backup from master

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the replication
> command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and
> streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch
> includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a server
> and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to
> "tar x".

Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar
is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar
extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively
painlessly.


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