Re: Extending BASE_BACKUP in replication protocol: incremental backup and backup format

On 2014-01-14 14:12:46 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Either way - if we can do this in a safe way, it sounds like a good idea.
> It would be sort of like rsync, except relying on the fact that we can look
> at the LSN and don't have to compare the actual files, right?

Which is an advantage, yes. On the other hand, it doesn't fix problems
with a subtly broken replica, e.g. after a bug in replay, or disk
corruption.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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