Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Well, we'd try to name the file for that "<oid>-/foo/bar.tar", which I
> guess would break badly, yes.

> I guess we could normalize the tablespace name into [a-zA-Z0-9] or so,
> which would still be useful for the majority of cases, I think?

Just stick with the OID.  There's no reason that I can see to have
"friendly" names for these tarfiles --- in most cases, the DBA will
never even deal with them, no?
        regards, tom lane