On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 12:11 AM Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> * Ron Johnson (ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> >> > The word "streaming". >> > Should be "But isn't streaming the whole purpose of pg_basebackup"? >> >> I'm a bit confused on this point still as if the whole purpose of >> pg_basebackup is to be streaming ... then we should be defaulting to >> fetch mode still? > > > No. Since I thought streaming is the whole purpose of pg_basebackup, I questioned the utility of every other method except --wal-method=streaming. Well, "fetch" mode also does streaming... It just does streaming at the end instead of parallel. So I guess one could argue the names chosen are wrong, and should be named something like "parallel" and "sequential". But I think the ship on renaming that has sailed a long time ago... -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/
