Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application?
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Msg-id 1304706536-sup-3669@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application?  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: should pg_basebackup be listed as a server application?
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Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of vie may 06 14:30:27 -0300 2011:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 19:18, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 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.

Is there really a dichotomy here? Client/server?  Maybe we just need
another category, "administrative applications" or something like that.

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