From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:36:43 -0400
Message-ID: <24131.1562855803@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 4:05 PM Peter Eisentraut
> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> My idea is that the postmaster can launch a base backup worker, wait
>> till it's done, then proceed with the rest of the startup. initdb gets
>> a special option to create a "minimal" data directory with only a few
>> files, directories, and the usual configuration files.
> Why do we even have to do that much? Can we remove the need for an
> initdb altogether?
Gotta have config files in place already, no?
regards, tom lane
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