Re: Return pg_control from pg_backup_stop().

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Haibo Yan <tristan.yim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgbackrest.org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-03-17T05:51:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:16:58PM -0700, Haibo Yan wrote:
> I have not read the code yet, so this may already be answered there,
> but I had a question about the proposal itself. This patch protects
> against a missing backup_label, but what about a wrong one? If a
> user restores a backup_label file from a different backup, the
> existence check alone would not detect that. Do we need some
> consistency check between the returned pg_control copy and the
> backup_label contents, or is the intended scope here limited to the
> “missing file” case only? 

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Michael