Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile

amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>

From: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-11-17T04:50:48Z

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Commits

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Move tar detection and compression logic to common.
- c8a350a43982 19 (unreleased) landed
pg_verifybackup: Enable WAL parsing for tar-format backups
- b3cf461b3cf9 19 (unreleased) landed
pg_waldump: Add support for reading WAL from tar archives
- b15c1513984e 19 (unreleased) landed
pg_waldump: Preparatory refactoring for tar archive WAL decoding.
- f8a0cd267170 19 (unreleased) landed
pg_verifybackup: Verify tar-format backups.
- 8dfd31290279 18.0 cited

Attachments

v6-0001-Refactor-pg_waldump-Move-some-declarations-to-new.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0001
v6-0002-Refactor-pg_waldump-Separate-logic-used-to-calcul.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0002
v6-0003-Refactor-pg_waldump-Restructure-TAP-tests.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0003
v6-0004-pg_waldump-Add-support-for-archived-WAL-decoding.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0004
v6-0005-pg_waldump-Remove-the-restriction-on-the-order-of.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0005
v6-0006-pg_verifybackup-Delay-default-WAL-directory-prepa.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0006
v6-0007-pg_verifybackup-Rename-the-wal-directory-switch-t.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0007
v6-0008-pg_verifybackup-enabled-WAL-parsing-for-tar-forma.patch (application/octet-stream) patch v6-0008

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com> wrote:
> > [....]
> Kindly have a look at the attached version. Thank you !
>

Attached is the rebased version against the latest master head (e76defbcf09).

Regards,
Amul