On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:05 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > My idea is that the postmaster can launch a base backup worker, wait > till it's done, then proceed with the rest of the startup. initdb gets > a special option to create a "minimal" data directory with only a few > files, directories, and the usual configuration files.
Why do we even have to do that much? Can we remove the need for an initdb altogether? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company