Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> writes:
> On 4/2/26 18:29, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Pushed, thanks for reviewing! In the event I decided to back-patch to
>> v18, where these fixes could protect pg_verifybackup against tar files
>> it can't handle.
> It seems jay/hippopotamus failed on this, for some reason.
Hmm:
# Failed test 'corrupt backup fails verification: extra_file: matches'
# at t/003_corruption.pl line 198.
# 'pg_verifybackup: error: pax extensions to tar format are not supported
# '
# doesn't match '(?^:extra_file.*present (on disk|in archive "[^"]+") but not in the manifest)'
> Maybe there's something special about OpenSUSE?
Apparently its version of "tar" will produce pax-extended files
at the drop of a hat. I have an OpenSUSE image around here
somewhere, will see if I can reproduce this. But while I'm
asking, what filesystem are those animals running on top of?
regards, tom lane
