Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > Hmm, that's clever. I was thinking that you'd initialize the standby from an > existing backup, and in that context the standby would not need to connect > to the master except via the replication connection. To take a base backup, > you'll need not only that but also access to the filesystem in the master, > ie. shell access.
In fact you don't need shell access here, it's rather easy to stream the base backup from the libpq connection, as implemented here : http://github.com/dimitri/pg_basebackup > There's been some talk of being able to stream a base backup over the > replication connection too, which would be extremely handy. Yes please ! :) -- dim -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
