On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Brian Weaver <cmdrcluel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Magnus, > > I probably just did a poor job of explaining what I wanted to try. I > was going to have the base backup open two connections; one to stream > the tar archive, the second to receive the wal files like > pg_receivexlog.
This is what --xlog=stream does. > The wal files received on the second connection would be streamed to a > temporary file, with tar headers. Then when the complete tar archive > from the first header was complete received simply replay the contents > from the temporary file to append them to the tar archive. Ah, yeah, that should also work I guess. But you could also just leave the the data in the temporary tarfile the whole time. IIRC, you can just cat one tarfile to the end of another one, right? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
