Re: Include WAL in base backup

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> What if you start a concurrent process that begins streaming the WAL
>> segments just before you start the backup, and you stop it after having
>> stopped the backup.  I would think that then, the local received files
>> would be complete.  We would only need a program able to stream the WAL
>> segments and build WAL files from that… do you know about one? :)
>
> Sure, if you stream the backups "on the side", then you don't need
> this feature. This is for "very simple filesystem backups", without
> the need to set up streaming of archiving.

What I meant is: why don't we provide an option to automate just that
behavior in pg_basebackup?  It looks like a fork() then calling code you
already wrote.

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Dimitri Fontaine
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