Greetings, * Alvaro Herrera (alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > On 2019-Jun-24, Robert Haas wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 5:13 PM Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > > All that said, whatever code it is that we write for pg_basebackup to do > > > this properly should go into our client side library, so other tools can > > > leverage that and avoid having to write it themselves. > > > > That is probably only going to help people who are writing in C (or > > maybe some close family member) and a lot of tools for managing > > PostgreSQL will be written in scripting languages. > > 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`. Maybe we can embed smarts to do that in, say, pg_ctl; then > everybody has access to it.
While I'm not against adding some kind of support like that if we feel like we really need it, I tend to think that just having it in libpgcommon would be enough for most tool authors to use.. Thanks, Stephen
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