Re: pg_basebackup --wal-method=fetch

Greetings,

* Ron Johnson (ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com) wrote:

> The word "streaming".
> Should be "But isn't streaming the whole purpose of pg_basebackup"?

I'm a bit confused on this point still as if the whole purpose of
pg_basebackup is to be streaming ... then we should be defaulting to
fetch mode still?

> I use PgBackRest, though, and can't imagine single-threading any
> reasonably-sized database.  In fact, one of the tasks on my mental TODO
> list is to research how to use PgBackRest to initialize a replica instance
> prior to starting Streaming Replication.

In terms of using pgbackrest to initialize a replica ... that's
basically running 'pgbackrest restore --type=standby'?  There's really
not much more to it than that.  pgbackrest will set up the restored
system to replay from the WAL in the archive, you'd just need to
configure primary_conninfo so that the replica will attempt to connect
to the primary once it's caught up with all of the WAL in the archive.