Re: Feature request: pg_basebackup --force - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Feature request: pg_basebackup --force
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Msg-id 9784.1302453336@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Feature request: pg_basebackup --force  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Feature request: pg_basebackup --force  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Couldn't we have a --force option which would clear all data and tablespace directories before resynching?

> What would be even more useful us some kind of support for
> differential copy, a la rsync.

> (Now I'm waiting for someone to tell me this is a pipe dream.)

Not so much a pipe dream as reinventing the wheel.  Why not use rsync?
        regards, tom lane


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