Memory usage of pg_basebackup...

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:23 AM Mladen Marinović
<mladen.marinovic@kset.org> wrote:

Hi,

Does anybody know how much RAM does pg_basebackup use and if it depends on the size of the database that the backup is being created?

pg_basebackup uses very little RAM, as the data received is written to
disk immediately. If you are doing compression it uses a little more,
but still within the "you don't really need to care" range. The RAM
usage is not dependent on the size of the database, it is always that
small.

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