Hi Alexander, > On 26. Feb, 2020, at 09:19, Alexander Kukushkin <cyberdemn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's not correct, Patroni will happily pick up the existing data directory. maybe I didn't express myself correctly. Of course it does. Otherwise replication wouldn't make sense. I meant, starting a Patroni replica for the first time will copy everything over from the master as it is. > This is also not correct. One can specify arbitrarily parameters for > pg_basebackup in the Patroni config file: > postgresql: > basebackup: > tablespace-mapping: /foo=/bar > waldir: /my/waldir I didn't know that. Thanks very much. :-) I'll give it a try. So, this is a Patroni question and not a PostgreSQL question after all and actually doesn't belong here anyway. Still, thanks for the answer. Cheers, Paul