Re: Feature request: pg_basebackup --force

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 20:26, Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Magnus, all:
>
> It seems a bit annoying to have to do an rm -rf * $PGDATA/ before resynching a standby using pg_basebackup.  This means that I still need to wrap basebackup in a shell script, instead of having it do everything for me ... especially if I have multiple tablespaces.
>
> Couldn't we have a --force option which would clear all data and tablespace directories before resynching?

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.

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