Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Hmm, that's not possible for the 'tar' output, but would work for 'dir'
> output. Another similar idea would be to withhold the control file in
> memory until the end of backup, and append it to the output as last. The
> backup can't be restored until the control file is written out.
> That won't protect from more complicated scenarios, like if you take the
> backup without the -x flag, and copy some but not all of the required
> WAL files manually to the pg_xlog directory. But it'd be much better
> than nothing for 9.1.
Maybe we're overcomplicating this. What about changing pg_basebackup to
print a message when the backup is completely sent/received? People
would get used to that quickly, and would know to be suspicious if they
didn't see it.
regards, tom lane
