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

From Sami Imseih
Subject Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
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Msg-id CAA5RZ0tXWJdL5mTJ8p9RrnThPoja-2LDykUykcbJt5iSjmWe6Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I also tried Thomas'
> > "v2-0001-Improve-tar-portability-logic-from-ebba64c0" [3] but it
> > didn't fix the problem on OpenBSD [4].
>
> Apparently it wants -F ustar, like this.  Funny that it passed on the
> build farm animals though.  Oh, it looks like they changed the default
> fairly recently.

LGTM with just a correction of my earlier comment.

< +    # ustar format supports UIDs only up to 2^21 (2097151).  Override
---
> +    # ustar format supports UIDs only up to 2^21 - 1 (2097151).  Override

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Sami

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