nice work

I wonder if you considered WAL-G, which is also written in Go

and has this: https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/blob/master/docs/PostgreSQL.m...

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, I know about this tool, it's great. I watched videos about how it was developed, what difficulties there were in achieving delta backups, and how the developers also spent a ton of time studying the PostgreSQL source code. And I studied the Wal-G source code myself. I just never had to use it at work, since I was used to pgBackRest and, a bit later, to Barman. Wal-G focuses on cloud and universality (i.e., it's not only used for PG, but has a unified interface for many different storage systems).

Initially, I didn't even have the idea of making a complete, reliable tool. Over time, I started striving toward exactly that. When there was an available hypervisor at work, I set up k8s there and ran my receiver for several dev databases, just to test its operation 24/7, setting aggressive config parameters (frequent compression, unloading, cleanup, frequent backups, etc.). At the same time, I was choosing not small databases, but quite real production ones, with various nightly integrations for data population (external APIs, Airflow, and all that), blobs/tablespaces.

And of course I read your articles, and watched a lot of videos