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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
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Msg-id D9BBAD84-A69C-48BD-9C79-341EA04D8E13@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> On Mar 28, 2026, at 7:34 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 11:37 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> It looks like to make this test stable on modern FreeBSD,
>>> we need to see if tar accepts --no-read-sparse and use that
>>> switch if so.
>
>> Yeah.  Here's my attempt at perl.
>
> Andrew might have some stylistic suggestions, but this looks
> plausible to me.

Looks basically ok to me, although I wouldn’t make the variable name all caps.

Cheers

Andrew



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