Magnus,
> That could certainly be useful, yes. But I have a feeling whomever
> tries to get that into 9.1 will be killed - but it's certainly good to
> put ont he list of things for 9.2.
Oh, no question. At some point in 9.2 we should also discuss how basebackup considers "emtpy" directories. Because the other thing I find myself constantly scripting is replacing the conf files on the replica after the base backup sync.
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