On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:26 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I don't hear many comments on this, but I'm pretty sure that it's a
good idea, and there haven't been many objections to this patch series
as a whole, so I'd like to proceed with it. If nobody objects
vigorously, I'll commit this next week.
Thanks,
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Robert Haas
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