Re: Document what is essential and undocumented in pg_basebackup

2022-03-09 Thread David Steele
On 3/9/22 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: I don't think it is as reasonable to say, effectively, that you learn what the irreducibly essential steps of an online base backup are by reading the source of pg_basebackup, and then intuiting which of the details you find there are the essential ones and

Re: Document what is essential and undocumented in pg_basebackup

2022-03-09 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Chapman Flack (c...@anastigmatix.net) wrote: > On 03/09/22 12:19, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Let's avoid hijacking [thread about other patch] [1] > > for an independent debate about what our documentation should or > > shouldn't include. > > Agreed. New thread here. Thanks. > Stephen

Document what is essential and undocumented in pg_basebackup

2022-03-09 Thread Chapman Flack
On 03/09/22 12:19, Stephen Frost wrote: > Let's avoid hijacking [thread about other patch] [1] > for an independent debate about what our documentation should or > shouldn't include. Agreed. New thread here. Stephen wrote: > Documenting everything that pg_basebackup does to make sure that the > b