Standby servers and incrementally updated backups

[Erik Jones <erik@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is my understanding that once a standby server has reached the  
point where it is often waiting for wal files to replay, it is pretty  
much caught up to the primary server, with the differences being in  
whatever wal files are currently in queue to be archived by the  
primary.  If I'm correct, then for large databases wherein it can  
take hours to take a base backup, is there anything to be gained by  
using incrementally updated backups?

Erik Jones

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