Re: [HACKERS] Make pg_basebackup -x stream the default

On 12/15/16 1:27 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com
> <mailto:peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/8/16 12:45 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>     > Per some discussions with a number of different people at pgconfeu, here
>     > is a patch that changes the default mode of pg_basebackup to be
>     > streaming the wal, as this is what most users would want -- and those
>     > that don't want it have to make other changes as well. Doing the "most
>     > safe" thing by default is a good idea.
>     >
>     > The new option "-x none" is provided to turn this off and get the
>     > previous behavior back.
> 
>     I would have expected that the "stream" method would become the default.
>      Just a short while ago it was proposed to remove the "fetch" method
>     altogether, and it was only kept because of some niche use cases.  I
>     don't think "fetch" is the most safe method, because it requires
>     wal_keep_segments to be configured.
> 
> 
> Eh. Yes. That's exactly what this patch does, is it not?

Yes, I misread the patch.  Works for me, then.

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