On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 13:48, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > On 03/09/10 14:28, Dave Page wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Heikki Linnakangas >> <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >>> >>> Here's a WIP patch. It adds a new "TAKE_BACKUP" command to the >>> replication >>> command set. Upon receiving that command, the master starts a COPY, and >>> streams a tarred copy of the data directory to the client. The patch >>> includes a simple command-line tool, pg_streambackup, to connect to a >>> server >>> and request a backup that you can then redirect to a .tar file or pipe to >>> "tar x". >> >> Cool. Can you add a TODO to build in code to un-tar the archive? tar >> is not usually found on Windows systems, and as we already have tar >> extraction code in pg_restore it could presumably be added relatively >> painlessly. > > Ok. Another obvious thing that people will want is to gzip the tar file > while sending it, to reduce network traffic.
Not necessarily obvious, needs to be configurable. There are a lot of cases where you might not want it. -- 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
