On 29 July 2015 at 13:00, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> As far as I understand this subthread the goal is to have a > pg_basebackup that internally creates a slot, so it can guarantee that > all the required WAL is present till streamed out by -X > stream/fetch. The problem with just creating a slot is that it'd "leak" > if pg_basebackup is killed, or the connection breaks. The idea with the > ephemeral slot is that it'd automatically kept alive until the base > backup is complete, but would also automatically be dropped if the base > backup fails. > > Makes sense? > So this would be needed when creating a standalone backup that would not be persistently connected to the master, yet we want to bring it up as a live/writable server in a single command, and we want to make it easy to script in case our script is killed? -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
