Fix tar files emitted by pg_basebackup to be POSIX conformant.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: dfa6eda5e44f1525aa6b142b8e252f5a79110ee6
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2012-09-28T19:35:51Z
Releases: 9.1.7
Fix tar files emitted by pg_basebackup to be POSIX conformant.

Back-patch portions of commit 05b555d12bc2ad0d581f48a12b45174db41dc10d.
There doesn't seem to be any reason not to fix pg_basebackup fully, but
we can't change pg_dump's "magic" string without breaking older versions
of pg_restore.  Instead, just patch pg_restore to accept either version
of the magic string, in hopes of avoiding compatibility problems when
9.3 comes out.  I also fixed pg_dump to write the correct 2-block EOF
marker, since that won't create a compatibility problem with pg_restore
and it could help with some versions of tar.

Brian Weaver and Tom Lane

Files

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doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml modified +5 −3
src/backend/replication/basebackup.c modified +40 −23
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c modified +19 −8