Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:05 PM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> My idea is that the postmaster can launch a base backup worker, wait
> till it's done, then proceed with the rest of the startup.  initdb gets
> a special option to create a "minimal" data directory with only a few
> files, directories, and the usual configuration files.

Why do we even have to do that much?  Can we remove the need for an
initdb altogether?

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