This is an option consistent with what pg_dump, pg_rewind and
pg_basebackup provide which is useful for leveraging the I/O effort when
testing things, not to be used in a production environment.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Fabien Coelho, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181221201616.GD4974@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de