Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 23:10, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr> wrote:
>>> That should be -D --pgdata, for consistency with pg_dump.
>>
>> pg_dump doesn't have a -D. I assume you mean pg_ctl / initdb?
>
> Yes, sorry, been too fast.

Ok. Updated patch that includes this change attached. I also changed
the tar directory from -t to -T, for consistency.

It also includes the change to take -h host, -U user, -w/-W for
password -p port instead of a conninfo string.

>> Another option, I think Heikki mentioned this on IM at some point, is
>> to do something like name it <oid>-<name>.tar. That would give us best
>> of both worlds?
>
> Well I'd think we know the pg_tablespace columns encoding, so the
> problem might be the filesystem encodings, right?  Well there's also the

Do we really? That's one of the global catalogs that don't really have
an encoding, isn't it?

> option of creating <oid>.tar and have a symlink to it called <name>.tar
> but that's pushing it.  I don't think naming after OIDs is a good
> service for users, but if that's all we can reasonably do…

Yeah, symlink seems to be making things way too complex. <oid>-<name>
seems is perhaps a reasonable compromise?

> Will continue reviewing and post something more polished and
> comprehensive next week — mainly wanted to see if you wanted to include
> pg_ctl <command> in the patch already.

Ok, thanks.

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