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To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application?
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 19:30:27 +0200
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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 19:18, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
> The pg_basebackup reference page is currently under "Client
> Applications" [0]. I think it's more of a server application, because
> it's what you'd run instead of initdb on the server. Should it be moved
> to the "Server Applications" section?
Not sure I buy that argument. pg_dump/pg_dumpall/pg_restore are under
client applications. They're something you run *alongside* initdb and
not instead, sure.. But they're all backup tools.
And normally you *don't* necessarily run pg_basebackup instead of
initdb. That is just one usecase - the one of setting up a clone or a
replication slave. If you're using it to just take a base backup
(which is what it's named for), it's not done instead of initdb...
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Magnus Hagander
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