Re: Make pg_basebackup -x stream the default

On 12/15/16 1:27 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
> <mailto:peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> On 11/8/16 12:45 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Per some discussions with a number of different people at pgconfeu, here
> > is a patch that changes the default mode of pg_basebackup to be
> > streaming the wal, as this is what most users would want -- and those
> > that don't want it have to make other changes as well. Doing the "most
> > safe" thing by default is a good idea.
> >
> > The new option "-x none" is provided to turn this off and get the
> > previous behavior back.
>
> I would have expected that the "stream" method would become the default.
> Just a short while ago it was proposed to remove the "fetch" method
> altogether, and it was only kept because of some niche use cases. I
> don't think "fetch" is the most safe method, because it requires
> wal_keep_segments to be configured.
>
>
> Eh. Yes. That's exactly what this patch does, is it not?

Yes, I misread the patch. Works for me, then.

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