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From Robert Haas
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In response to Re: finding changed blocks using WAL scanning  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:35 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I assumed the modblock files would be stored in the WAL archive so some
> external tools could generate incremental backups using just the WAL
> files.  I assumed they would also be sent to standby servers so
> incremental backups could be done on standby servers too.

Yeah, that's another possible approach.  I am not sure what is best.

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Robert Haas
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