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Pavel Luzanov
Specifies a libpq connection string to connect to the source
PostgreSQL> server to synchronize the target with.
- The server must be up and running, and must not be in recovery mode.
+ The connection must be a normal (non-replication) connection
+ with superuser access. The server must be up and running,
+ and must not be in recovery mode.