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Re: Add recovery to pg_control and remove backup_label

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-20T20:41:10Z
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Hi,

On 2023-11-20 15:56:19 -0400, David Steele wrote:
> I understand this is an option -- but does it need to be? What is the
> benefit of excluding the manifest?

It's not free to create the manifest, particularly if checksums are enabled.

Also, for external backups, there's no manifest...

- Andres

Commits

  1. Doc: improve documentation for jsonpath behavior.

  2. Extend sendFileWithContent() to handle custom content length in basebackup.c