Re: pg_basebackup wish list

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup wish list
Date: 2016-08-18 22:06:31
Message-ID: 3bce988c-6d1a-2752-1461-24afa6b12d3d@2ndquadrant.com
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On 7/12/16 9:55 PM, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> And what I think is pg_baseback never remove the directory specified
> by -D option even if execution is failed. initdb command behaves so.
> I think it's helpful for backup operation.

This has been bothering me as well.

How about the attached patch as a start?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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0001-pg_basebackup-Clean-created-directories-on-failure.patch text/x-patch 9.3 KB

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