Re: Allowing multiple concurrent base backups

> It makes it very convenient to set up standbys, without having to worry
> that you'll conflict e.g with a nightly backup. I don't imagine people
> will use streaming base backups for very large databases anyway.

Also, imagine that you're provisioning a 10-node replication cluster on
EC2.  This would make that worlds easier.

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