On 1/14/22 3:42 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 1/14/22 13:04, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
>>> On 1/14/22 1:40 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> snip]
>>>> We shouldn't be trying to provide
>>>> documentation around how to write a tool like pgbackrest, we should,
>>>> instead, have a tool like pgbackrest in core with its own documentation,
>>>> as most other RDBMS's do.
>>
>>> That's an excellent solution to this problem.
>>
>> While I know the reasons for not having something like pgbackrest in
>> core, I think this is a major drawback for the project. People coming
>> from commercial systems are used to have that tooling included by default.
>
> They are also used to paying a big whopping bill, which is why they go
> looking for alternatives. So like most things is it a tradeoff, sweat
> equity vs hard cash.
David Johnston's comment about the docs saying "use pgbackrest or barman,
etc" is a good compromise.
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