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Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

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From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-16T18:21:29Z
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> If you're doing a regular base backup, that's *not* for replication,
> you might want them in files.

+1

So, is that pg_restore -l idea feasible with your current tar format?  I
guess that would translate to pg_basebackup -l <directory>|<oid>.tar.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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