Re: WAL Archiving and base backup

On 1/14/22 13:04, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
>> On 1/14/22 1:40 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> snip]
>>> We shouldn't be trying to provide
>>> documentation around how to write a tool like pgbackrest, we should,
>>> instead, have a tool like pgbackrest in core with its own documentation,
>>> as most other RDBMS's do.
> 
>> That's an excellent solution to this problem.
> 
> While I know the reasons for not having something like pgbackrest in core, I think this is a major drawback for the
project.People coming from commercial systems are used to have that tooling included by default.
 

They are also used to paying a big whopping bill, which is why they go 
looking for alternatives. So like most things is it a tradeoff, sweat 
equity vs hard cash.


> 
> +1 for having that in core
> 
> Regards
> Daniel
> 


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