Re: WAL "low watermark" during base backup

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> If you must have this then make pg_basebackup copy xlog files
>> regularly during the backup. That way your backup can take forever and
>> your primary disk won't fill up. In many cases it actually will take
>> forever, but at least we don't take down the primary.
>
> There is a patch to do something like that as well sitting on the CF
> page. I don't believe one necessarily excludes the other.

I'm not getting why we need the later one when we have this older one?

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