> A complain that I have about such concepts is that it creates a
> dependency between utilities which are usually classified by
> distributions as client-side (pg_basebackup goes to postgresql-client
> for Debian), and the server itself. There is perhaps room for an
> extension though. If many vendors are providing such an option at SQL
> level, it would mean that there is demand for it.
I think new function/SQL would not be necessarily bound to
pg_basebackup. Rather, new GUC would be invented so that which tool is
executed by the function/SQL for backup. For example,
create_streaming_standby_command = '/path/to/create_standby.sh %h %p %d'
where %h is the host, %p is the port on which postmaster is listening
on and %d is the database cluster directory for the standby server to
be created.
Then the new function (suppose it is called
"create_streaming_standby") would be called something like:
create_streaming_standby('standby_host', 5432, '/usr/local/pgsql/data')
and it execute create_standby.sh with the arguments.
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