Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 19:21, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> If you're doing a regular base backup, that's *not* for replication,
>> you might want them in files.
>
> +1
>
> So, is that pg_restore -l idea feasible with your current tar format?  I
> guess that would translate to pg_basebackup -l <directory>|<oid>.tar.

Um, not easily if you want to translate it to names. Just like you
don't have access to the oid->name mapping without the server started.
The walsender can't read pg_class for example, so it can't generate
that mapping file.

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