Re: trying again to get incremental backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2023-10-25 We 11:24, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:33 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> I'm not too worried about the maintenance burden.
>>
>> That said, I agree that JSON might not be the best format for backup
>> manifests, but maybe that ship has sailed.
> I think it's a decision we could walk back if we had a good enough
> reason, but it would be nicer if we didn't have to, because what we
> have right now is working. If we change it for no real reason, we
> might introduce new bugs, and at least in theory, incompatibility with
> third-party tools that parse the existing format. If you think we can
> live with the additional complexity in the JSON parsing stuff, I'd
> rather go that way.
>

OK, I'll go with that. It will actually be a bit less invasive than the 
patch I posted.


cheers


andrew

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