Re: cross-platform pg_basebackup

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-10-20T17:04:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 12:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > However, I think we could relax the check a little bit, something
> > along the lines of !is_nonwindows_absolute_path(cell->old_dir) &&
> > !is_windows_absolute_path(dir). We can't actually know whether the
> > remote side is Windows or non-Windows, but if the string we're given
> > is plausibly an absolute path under either set of conventions, it's
> > probably fine to just search the list for it and see if it shows up.
>
> Seems reasonable.

Cool. Here's a patch.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. pg_basebackup: Fix cross-platform tablespace relocation.