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Subject: Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process
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I have set this patch to "returned with feedback" in the upcoming commit 
fest, because I will not be able to finish it.

Unsurprisingly, the sequencing of startup actions in postmaster.c is 
extremely tricky and needs more thinking.  All the rest worked pretty 
well, I thought.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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