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Re: refactoring basebackup.c

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Jeevan Ladhe <jeevan.ladhe@enterprisedb.com>, Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-01-04T14:37:44Z
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  1. Document BaseBackupSync and BaseBackupWrite wait events.

  2. Support long distance matching for zstd compression

  3. Fix possible NULL-pointer-deference in backup_compression.c.

  4. Allow parallel zstd compression when taking a base backup.

  5. Make PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster::run_log() return a useful value.

  6. Fix a few goofs in new backup compression code.

  7. Replace BASE_BACKUP COMPRESSION_LEVEL option with COMPRESSION_DETAIL.

  8. Add 'basebackup_to_shell' contrib module.

  9. Allow extensions to add new backup targets.

  10. Change HAVE_LIBLZ4 and HAVE_LIBZSTD tests to USE_LZ4 and USE_ZSTD.

  11. pg_basebackup: Clean up some bogus file extension tests.

  12. pg_basebackup: Avoid unclean failure with server-compression and -D -.

  13. Fix LZ4 tests for remaining buffer space.

  14. Add support for zstd base backup compression.

  15. pg_basebackup: Allow client-side LZ4 (de)compression.

  16. Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.

  17. Add min() and max() aggregates for xid8.

  18. Remove superfluous variable.

  19. pg_basebackup: Cleaner handling when compression is multiply specified.

  20. Allow server-side compression to be used with -Fp.

  21. pg_basebackup: Fix a couple of recently-introduced bugs.

  22. Tidy up a few cosmetic issues related to pg_basebackup.

  23. Server-side gzip compression.

  24. Unbreak pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl on msys

  25. Suppress variable-set-but-not-used warning from clang 13.

  26. Extend the options of pg_basebackup to control compression

  27. Support base backup targets.

  28. Modify pg_basebackup to use a new COPY subprotocol for base backups.

  29. Document that tar archives are now properly terminated.

  30. Fix thinko in bbsink_throttle_manifest_contents.

  31. Have the server properly terminate tar archives.

  32. Minimal fix for unterminated tar archive problem.

  33. Introduce 'bbstreamer' abstraction to modularize pg_basebackup.

  34. Introduce 'bbsink' abstraction to modularize base backup code.

  35. Refactor basebackup.c's _tarWriteDir() function.

  36. Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.

  37. Flexible options for BASE_BACKUP.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 12:12 PM tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/21 11:05 PM, Jeevan Ladhe wrote:
> > Please find the lz4 compression patch here that basically has:
> Please refer to this  scenario , where --server-compression is only
> compressing
> base backup into lz4 format but not pg_wal directory
>
> [edb@centos7tushar bin]$ ./pg_basebackup -Ft --server-compression=lz4
> -Xstream -D foo
>
> [edb@centos7tushar bin]$ ls foo
> backup_manifest  base.tar.lz4  pg_wal.tar
>
> this same is valid for gzip as well if server-compression is set to gzip
>
> edb@centos7tushar bin]$ ./pg_basebackup -Ft --server-compression=gzip4
> -Xstream -D foo1
>
> [edb@centos7tushar bin]$ ls foo1
> backup_manifest  base.tar.gz  pg_wal.tar
>
> if this scenario is valid then both the folders format should be in lz4
> format otherwise we should
> get an error something like - not a valid option ?

Before sending an email like this, it would be a good idea to read the
documentation for the --server-compression option.

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