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Re: Refactoring of compression options in pg_basebackup

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Georgios Kokolatos <gkokolatos@pm.me>
Date: 2022-01-06T05:21:15Z
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 10:22:06AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think the existing precedent is to skip the test if tar isn't there,
> cf pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl.  But certainly the majority of
> buildfarm animals have it.

Even Windows environments should be fine, aka recent edc2332.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Extend the options of pg_basebackup to control compression

  2. Add TAP tests for pg_basebackup with compression

  3. Refactor tar method of walmethods.c to rely on the compression method