Re: Allow specifying a dbname in pg_basebackup connection string

On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 13:23, Jelte Fennema <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> Normally it doesn't really matter which dbname is used in the connection
> string that pg_basebackup and other physical replication CLI tools use.
> The reason being, that physical replication does not work at the
> database level, but instead at the server level. So you will always get
> the data for all databases.
>
> However, when there's a proxy, such as PgBouncer, in between the client
> and the server, then it might very well matter. Because this proxy might
> want to route the connection to a different server depending on the
> dbname parameter in the startup packet.
>
> This patch changes the creation of the connection string key value
> pairs, so that the following command will actually include
> dbname=postgres in the startup packet to the server:
>
> pg_basebackup --dbname 'dbname=postgres port=6432' -D dump

I guess my immediate question is, should backups be taken through
PgBouncer? It seems beyond PgBouncer's remit.

Thom