Re: Streaming a base backup from master

* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> IOW, what I'd like to see is protocol extensions that allow an external
> copy of rsync to be invoked; not build in rsync, or tar, or anything
> else that we could get off-the-shelf.

I'd much rather use an existing library to implement it than call out to
some external utility.  That said, I'm about as thrilled with libtar as
librsync after a bit of googling around. :/
Thanks,
    Stephen