Re: Online base backup from the hot-standby

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> On 10/25/11 5:03 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> If we want something to go in early, that could be as simple as a
>> version of pg_basebackup that runs against the slave but only if
>> full_page_writes=on on the master. If it's not, it throws an error.
>> Then we can improve upon that by adding handling of fpw=off, first by
>> infrastructure, then by tool.
>
> Just to be clear, the idea is to require full_page_writes to do backup
> from the standby in 9.2, but to remove the requirement later?

Yes unless I'm missing something. Not sure if we can remove that in 9.2, though.

Regards,

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