Re: Add recovery to pg_control and remove backup_label

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-11-06T05:05:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:10:42AM -0400, David Steele wrote:
> We are still planning to address this issue in the back branches.

FWIW, redesigning the backend code in charge of doing base backups in
the back branches is out of scope.  Based on a read of the proposed
patch, it includes catalog changes which would require a catversion
bump, so that's not going to work anyway.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Doc: improve documentation for jsonpath behavior.

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