Fix pg_waldump/t/001_basic.pl with BSD tar on ZFS.
Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Fix pg_waldump/t/001_basic.pl with BSD tar on ZFS. The new test fails with an error about a missing WAL file on that stack, because it is archived in GNU tar's --sparse --format=posix format. BSD tar uses that format by default, unlike GNU tar itself, and ZFS triggers it by implicitly creating sparse files when it sees a lot of zeroes. The problem will surely also affect real users of the new tar support in pg_waldump (commit b15c1513) and pg_verifybackup (commit b3cf461b3) on such systems. Ideas under discussion, but for now the test is made to pass by disabling sparse file detection in BSD tar. Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1624716.1774736283%40sss.pgh.pa.us
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| src/bin/pg_waldump/t/001_basic.pl | modified | +10 −1 |
Discussion
- pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile 126 messages · 2025-08-07 → 2026-04-15