Re: Add recovery to pg_control and remove backup_label

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-20T19:47:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 2:41 PM David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> wrote:
> I can't see why a backup would continue to be valid without a manifest
> -- that's not very standard for backup software. If you have the
> critical info in backup_label, you can't afford to lose that, so why
> should backup_manifest be any different?

I mean, you can run pg_basebackup --no-manifest.

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



Commits

  1. Doc: improve documentation for jsonpath behavior.

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