Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 8:05 AM Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Attached is a very hackish patch to implement this.  It works like this:
>
>     # (assuming you have a primary already running somewhere)
>     initdb -D data2 --minimal
>     $EDITOR data2/postgresql.conf  # set primary_conninfo
>     pg_ctl -D data2 start

+1, very nice.  How about --replica?

FIY Windows doesn't like your patch:

src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c(1396): warning C4013: 'sleep'
undefined; assuming extern returning int
[C:\projects\postgresql\postgres.vcxproj]

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/postgresql-cfbot/postgresql/build/1.0.45930

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