Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions

From: Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Ian Barwick <ian(dot)barwick(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ALTER SYSTEM from making bad assumptions
Date: 2019-06-25 08:45:39
Message-ID: 7624191561452339@myt1-ea84d188029c.qloud-c.yandex.net
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Hello

> But we already have ALTER SYSTEM, so why do we need to write it again?
> You just need to check whether the system is running: if it is, connect
> and do "ALTER SYSTEM". If it isn't, do `echo ALTER SYSTEM | postgres
> --single`.

Is this approach still possible for pg_basebackup --format=tar ? For "pg_basebackup -D - --format=tar" ?

regards, Sergei

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