Re: documenting the backup manifest file format - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Subject Re: documenting the backup manifest file format
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Msg-id 20200416004315.6ce51273@firost
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In response to Re: documenting the backup manifest file format  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: documenting the backup manifest file format  (David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>)
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:03:28 -0400
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:23 AM Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
> <jgdr@dalibo.com> wrote:
> > But for backup_manifest, it's kind of shame we have to check the checksum
> > against an transformed version of the file. Did you consider creating eg. a
> > separate backup_manifest.sha256 file?
> >
> > I'm very sorry in advance if this has been discussed previously.  
> 
> It was briefly mentioned in the original (lengthy) discussion, but I
> think there was one vote in favor and two votes against or something
> like that, so it didn't go anywhere.

Argh.

> I didn't realize that there were handy command-line tools for manipulating
> json like that, or I probably would have considered that idea more strongly.

That was indeed a lengthy thread with various details discussed. I'm sorry I
didn't catch the ball back then.

Regards,



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