Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tomas Vondra
Subject Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
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Msg-id 63de1553-829a-488d-8ee0-976afb8dd32c@vondra.me
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In response to Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
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On 4/2/26 19:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?
> 

btrfs

-- 
Tomas Vondra




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