Re: where should I stick that backup?

Hi,

On 2020-04-10 12:20:01 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> - We're only talking about writing a handful of tar files, and that's
> in the context of a full-database backup, which is a much
> heavier-weight operation than a query.
> - There is not really any state that needs to be maintained across calls.
> - The expected result is that a file gets written someplace, which is
> not an in-memory data structure but something that gets written to a
> place outside of PostgreSQL.

Wouldn't there be state like a S3/ssh/https/... connection? And perhaps
a 'backup_id' in the backup metadata DB that'd one would want to update
at the end?

Greetings,

Andres Freund