Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
> You could still use environment variables and a service file to do it, but
> it's certainly more cumbersome. It clearly should be possible to pass a full
> connection string to pg_basebackup, that's an obvious oversight.
FWIW, +1. I would consider it a bugfix (backpatch, etc).
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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