Re: register/unregister standby Re: Synchronous replication

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Hmm, that's clever. I was thinking that you'd initialize the standby from an
> existing backup, and in that context the standby would not need to connect
> to the master except via the replication connection. To take a base backup,
> you'll need not only that but also access to the filesystem in the master,
> ie. shell access.

In fact you don't need shell access here, it's rather easy to stream the
base backup from the libpq connection, as implemented here :
 http://github.com/dimitri/pg_basebackup

> There's been some talk of being able to stream a base backup over the
> replication connection too, which would be extremely handy.

Yes please ! :)
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dim