On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 13:03, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <eu...@timbira.com> wrote: > Em 29-12-2010 07:47, Magnus Hagander escreveu: >> >> Would people be interested in putting pg_streamrecv >> (http://github.com/mhagander/pg_streamrecv) in bin/ or contrib/ for >> 9.1? I think it would make sense to do so. >> > +1 but... > >> It could/should then also become the default tool for doing >> base-backup-over-libpq, assuming me or Heikki (or somebody else) >> finishes off the patch for that before 9.1. >> > I think that the base backup feature is more important than simple streaming > chunks of the WAL (SR already does this). Talking about the base backup over > libpq, it is something we should implement to fulfill people's desire that > claim an easy replication setup.
Yes, definitely. But that also needs server side support. > IIRC, Dimitri already coded a base backup over libpq tool [1] but it is > written in Python. Yeah, the WIP patch heikki posted is simliar, except it uses tar format and is implemented natively in the backend with no need for pl/pythonu to be installed. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
