Re: pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout
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Msg-id 1306444217.27440.11.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On tor, 2011-05-26 at 17:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > pg_basebackup currently doesn't allow compressed tar to stdout.  That
> > should be added to make the interface consistent, and specifically to
> > allow common idoms like
> 
> > pg_basebackup -Ft -z -D - | ssh tar -x -z -f -
> 
> > Small patch attached.
> 
> I have not bothered to read this in context, but the visible part of the
> patch makes it look like you broke the not-HAVE_LIBZ case ... other than
> that gripe, no objection.

Ah yes, that needs some fine-tuning.



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