Re: [HACKERS] WIP: Restricting pg_rewind to data/wal dirs

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 03:12:58PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> I would think the next step here, as Michael suggested very early on in
> this thread, would be to bring the exclude list and perhaps logic for
> pg_basebackup into the common code and have pg_rewind leverage that
> instead of having its own code that largely does the same and then
> adding an option to exclude additional items to that.  There's no sense
> having pg_rewind operate on files that are going to end up getting wiped
> out when recovery starts anyway.  Perhaps there's a use-case for
> overriding the exclude list with a 'include' option too, but I'm not
> convinced there is.

Me neither.  I'll look into getting something for the next commit fest.
There have been way too many complaints about how pg_rewind copies too
much data for nothing to ignore doing something (the last one about
pg_replslot data).  A good first step would be what you are writing in
the paragraph above, so I intend to do that as I am sure that it would
be a good addition.  For now I have marked the proposed patches as
returned with feedback.
--
Michael