Re: refactoring basebackup.c

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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: 2022-01-05T15:05:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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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 Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 5:11 AM tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> One scenario where I feel error message is confusing and if it is not
> supported at all then error message need to be a little bit more clear
>
> if we use -z  (or -Z ) with -t , we are getting this error
> [edb@centos7tushar bin]$  ./pg_basebackup -t server:/tmp/test0 -Xfetch -z
> pg_basebackup: error: only tar mode backups can be compressed
> Try "pg_basebackup --help" for more information.
>
> but after removing -z option  backup is in tar mode only
>
> edb@centos7tushar bin]$  ./pg_basebackup -t server:/tmp/test0 -Xfetch
> [edb@centos7tushar bin]$ ls /tmp/test0
> backup_manifest  base.tar

OK, fair enough, I can adjust the error message for that case.

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