Re: Streaming a base backup from master - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Streaming a base backup from master
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Msg-id 20100903160904.GU26232@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Streaming a base backup from master  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Streaming a base backup from master  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> IOW, what I'd like to see is protocol extensions that allow an external
> copy of rsync to be invoked; not build in rsync, or tar, or anything
> else that we could get off-the-shelf.

I'd much rather use an existing library to implement it than call out to
some external utility.  That said, I'm about as thrilled with libtar as
librsync after a bit of googling around. :/
Thanks,
    Stephen

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