On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> pg_rewind --source-server uses the libpq default mechanisms for the
> database, but that's useless for pg_rewind, which can just always use
> dbname=postgres, like other database-agnostic utilities.
Keep in mind that the postgres database can be dropped. Most if not
all of our other utilities offer a Way Out in that situation.
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