Re: pg_basebackup

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Emanuel Calvo <postgres(dot)arg(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm seeing the results of pg_basebackup and I saw postmaster.opts.
> Is not necessary, although is inoffensive. But has  the name of the
> original cluster name inside. If it's only keep for information purposes,
> maybe backup_label could be the right place.
>
> Is just an idea.
>
> Thougths?

I think we're just copying all the files we find. We could add an
exception specifically for that case, but I'm not sure whether that's
a good idea or not.

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