Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby

From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby
Date: 2012-10-03 08:37:27
Message-ID: 506BF947.5060105@cybertec.at
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Hi,

2012-10-03 10:25 keltezéssel, Magnus Hagander írta:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>> On mån, 2012-07-02 at 01:10 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>>> But I think that part is lacking in functionality: AFAICT it's
>>>> hardcoded to only handle host, port, user and password. What about
>>>> other connection parameters, likely passed to pg_basebackup through
>>>> the environment in that case? isn't that quite likely to break the
>>>> server later?
>>> What about something like PQconninfo which returns the connection
>>> string value established at connection?
>>>
>>>> Maybe the proper way around that is to provide the ability for
>>>> pg_basebackup to take a full connection string, just like we allow
>>>> psql to do?
>>> +1
>>>
>> I think both of these would be necessary to make this work smoothly.
>>
>> You also need to take into account situations like when pg_basebackup
>> found a server with the help of PG* environment variables that might no
>> longer be set when the server tries to start recovery. So you need
>> something like PQconninfo.
> Zoltan,
>
> are you planning to work on the things discussed in this thread? I
> notice the patch is sitting with "waiting on author" in the CF app -
> so the second question is that if you are doing that, do you think it
> will be done within the scope of the current CF?

yes, I am on it so it can be done in this CF.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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