Dataloss at GitLab | PostgreSQL Blog | 2ndQuadrant> pg_basebackup first issues a checkpoint to ensure it gets the latest data for the backup, which by default is a paced checkpoint to avoid hitting the disks too hard. As a result it can take a few minutes, typically about 4 minutes with default settings to start up. During that time the pg_basebackup process is quiet while it waits for the checkpoint on the master to complete. Seems like this cou
