Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 4:10 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:36 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> Gotta have config files in place already, no?
>
> > Why?
>
> How's the postmaster to know that it's supposed to run pg_basebackup
> rather than start normally?  Where will it get the connection information?
> Seem to need configuration data *somewhere*.

Maybe just:

./postgres --replica='connstr' -D createme

?

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