Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FCE1337D2A for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 17:04:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34278-01-6 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 20:04:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.55.9]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EF071337C47 for ; Mon, 9 May 2011 16:28:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 2355 invoked by uid 0); 9 May 2011 19:28:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO host159.hostmonster.com) (74.220.207.159) by oproxy7.bluehost.com with SMTP; 9 May 2011 19:28:57 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=timbira.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=pV/p7GoJI2N6/sr9IigAmsNmJs68dXfAjCHCQkeDyTPBa06WqC0zFynYlnl7qWomanooX0Qvkl2UBplmfqG+i1HXDsA83NO5MuEAwwDDFEX7XcRfD0/dZJIYpx97faT0; Received: from [177.0.29.87] (helo=[10.1.1.2]) by host159.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJW8X-0000Tk-01; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:28:57 -0600 Message-ID: <4DC8406A.5070309@timbira.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:28:42 -0300 From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110307 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: Josh Kupershmidt , Alvaro Herrera , Magnus Hagander , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs Subject: Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application? References: <1304702299.28821.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> <1304706536-sup-3669@alvh.no-ip.org> <3880.1304727493@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <3880.1304727493@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1651:host159.hostmonster.com:timbirac:timbira.com} {sentby:smtp auth 177.0.29.87 authed with euler@timbira.com} X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/40 X-Sequence-Number: 6715 Em 06-05-2011 21:18, Tom Lane escreveu: > I also tend to agree with Alvaro that a lot of the stuff that falls on > the "client" side of the fence when using the strict "can it be executed > remotely" test > I think this idea is strict from docs [1] ("The common feature of these applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of where the database server resides."). I agree that is not a good way to categorize binaries but who bothers? (It is only two categories.) It seems logical that all "clients" use some postgresql library. So I would put pg_basebackup on the "client" side of the fence. [1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/reference-client.html -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira - Timbira http://www.timbira.com.br/ PostgreSQL: Consultoria, Desenvolvimento, Suporte 24x7 e Treinamento