Re: base backup client as auxiliary backend process

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 01:37:25AM -0800, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-01-23 15:49:37 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I assume that's probably discussed on the thread that is linked here,
>> but you shouldn't have to dig through the discussion thread to figure
>> out what the benefits of a change like this are.
>
> which I fully agree with.
>
> It's not at all clear to me that the potential downsides of this have
> been fully thought through. And even if they have, they've not been
> documented.

There is this, and please let me add a reference to another complaint
I had about this commit:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200122055510.GH174860@paquier.xyz
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Michael