On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:
> In fact you don't need shell access here, it's rather easy to stream the
> base backup from the libpq connection, as implemented here :
>
> http://github.com/dimitri/pg_basebackup
>
>> There's been some talk of being able to stream a base backup over the
>> replication connection too, which would be extremely handy.
>
> Yes please ! :)
One issue of the base backup function is that the operation will
be a long transaction. So, non-transactional special commands,
as like as VACUUM, would be better in terms of performance.
For example, CREATE or ALTER REPLICATION.
Of course, function-based approach is more flexible and
less invasive to the SQL parser. There are trade-offs.
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Itagaki Takahiro