* Andres Freund (and...@2ndquadrant.com) wrote: > Its rather useful if you e.g. want to instantiate a new replica without > rebuilding pg_dump/pg_restore's capabilities wrt. ordering, parallelism, > separating initial data load from index creation and all that. Which > already has been incompletely reinvented by several solutions :(.
Perhaps it's just a wording thing, but I wouldn't use the term "replica"
when referring to something built with pg_dump/restore- that should
really be reserved for a slave system created through replication.
> So besides the above and real problems you point out this seems
> worthwile to me...
It certainly sounds interesting and I like the idea of it, but perhaps
we need a different mechanism than just passing in a raw snapshot, to
address the concerns that Tom raised.
Thanks,
Stephen
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