On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 8:41 AM Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> wrote:
> It took me a while to assimilate these patches, including the backup
> targets one, which I hadn't looked at before. Now that I've wrapped my
> head around how to put the pieces together, I really like the idea. As
> you say, writing non-trivial integrations in C will take some effort,
> but it seems worthwhile. It's also nice that one can continue to use
> pg_basebackup to trigger the backups and see progress information.
Cool. Thanks for having a look.
> Yes, it looks simple to follow the example set by basebackup_to_shell to
> write a custom target. The complexity will be in whatever we need to do
> to store/forward the backup data, rather than in obtaining the data in
> the first place, which is exactly as it should be.
Yeah, that's what made me really happy with how this came out.
Here's v2, rebased and with documentation added.
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Robert Haas
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