On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:41 AM Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@toroid.org> wrote: > It took me a while to assimilate these patches, including the backup > targets one, which I hadn't looked at before. Now that I've wrapped my > head around how to put the pieces together, I really like the idea. As > you say, writing non-trivial integrations in C will take some effort, > but it seems worthwhile. It's also nice that one can continue to use > pg_basebackup to trigger the backups and see progress information.
Cool. Thanks for having a look. > Yes, it looks simple to follow the example set by basebackup_to_shell to > write a custom target. The complexity will be in whatever we need to do > to store/forward the backup data, rather than in obtaining the data in > the first place, which is exactly as it should be. Yeah, that's what made me really happy with how this came out. Here's v2, rebased and with documentation added. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
v2-0001-Allow-extensions-to-add-new-backup-targets.patch
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