Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> What if you start a concurrent process that begins streaming the WAL >> segments just before you start the backup, and you stop it after having >> stopped the backup. I would think that then, the local received files >> would be complete. We would only need a program able to stream the WAL >> segments and build WAL files from that… do you know about one? :) > > Sure, if you stream the backups "on the side", then you don't need > this feature. This is for "very simple filesystem backups", without > the need to set up streaming of archiving.
What I meant is: why don't we provide an option to automate just that behavior in pg_basebackup? It looks like a fork() then calling code you already wrote. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
