According to the postgresql documentation on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/continuous-archiving.html section 25.3.3.1 you can pass 2 extra parameters to pg_start_backup().

I'm particularly interested in the second parameter which does a fast checkpoint.

Is this a feature which can be added as a command-line parameter to wal-e backup-push eg `wal-e backup-push --fast-chec

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As they say in docs (https://postgrespro.com/docs/postgrespro/10/app-pgprobackup) that there is such option as -v/--verbose for many probackup module(restore,validate, backup) but if me try to use it i got error:
~/backup-tools# pg_probackup-10 restore -j 6 -B /backup/backup/ --instance aaa -D /backup/backup/tmp/aaa/ --time='2019-02-10 00:00' --inclusive=true --verbose
pg_probackup-10: unrecog

it would be useful to have an option to specify offset for fat32 bootable images that could be inspected right a way without a need to create an intermediate file using dd like

dd if=boot.img of=boot_shifted.img skip=2048

Not particularly interesting overall, just actor model essentially, but could be interesting for people who are curious or doing something similar, especially the benchmark.