Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 at 16:50, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not completely: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgbasebackup.html > > -d connstr > > --dbname=connstr > > Specifies parameters used to connect to the server, as a > > <connection string>; these will override any conflicting command line > > options. > > The option is called --dbname for consistency with other client > > applications, but because pg_basebackup doesn't connect to any > > particular database in the cluster, any database name in the connection > > string will be ignored. > Seems like I was looking for the wrong words on the right page ! Thanks, will try that.