On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> 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?
What would be even more useful us some kind of support for
differential copy, a la rsync.
(Now I'm waiting for someone to tell me this is a pipe dream.)
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company