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Re: trying again to get incremental backup

Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>

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From: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-09-04T12:41:53Z
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 9:20 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unless someone has a brilliant idea that I lack, this suggests to me
> that this whole line of testing is a dead end. I can, of course, write
> tests that compare clusters *logically* -- do the correct relations
> exist, are they accessible, do they have the right contents?

Can't we think of comparing at the block level, like we can compare
each block but ignore the content of the hole?

-- 
Regards,
Dilip Kumar
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

Commits

  1. Minor fixes to pg_combinebackup and its documentation.

  2. Fix defects in PrepareForIncrementalBackup.

  3. Add WALSummarizerLock to wait_event_names.txt

  4. Initialize variable to placate compiler.

  5. Replace nonsense comment with a relevant one.

  6. Fix numerous typos in incremental backup commits.

  7. Add support for incremental backup.

  8. Add a new WAL summarizer process.

  9. Move src/bin/pg_verifybackup/parse_manifest.c into src/common.

  10. Fix brown paper bag bug in 5c47c6546c413d5eb51c1626070a807026e6139d.

  11. Rename pg_verifybackup's JsonManifestParseContext callback functions.

  12. Rename JsonManifestParseContext callbacks.

  13. Change how a base backup decides which files have checksums.

  14. Change struct tablespaceinfo's oid member from 'char *' to 'Oid'

  15. Refactor parse_filename_for_nontemp_relation to parse more.

  16. During online checkpoints, insert XLOG_CHECKPOINT_REDO at redo point.

  17. In basebackup.c, refactor to create read_file_data_into_buffer.

  18. In basebackup.c, refactor to create verify_page_checksum.

  19. Report syncscan position at end of scan.

  20. Exclude additional directories in pg_basebackup

  21. Add new JSON processing functions and parser API.