[HACKERS] Re: [BUGS] BUG #14634: On Windows pg_basebackup should write tar tostdout in binary mode

On 07/14/2017 05:27 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:54 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> On 05/03/2017 07:32 AM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
>>
>>> [Adding -hackers mailing list]
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:28 PM, <henry_boehlert@agilent.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Executing command pg_basebackup -D -F t writes its output to stdout,
>>>> which
>>>> is open in text mode, causing LF to be converted to CR LF thus corrupting
>>>> the resulting archive.
>>>>
>>>> To write the tar to stdout, on Windows stdout's mode should be
>>>> temporarily
>>>> switched to binary.
>>>>
>>>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tw4k6df8.aspx
>>>
>>> Thanks for reporting the issue.
>>> With the attached patch, I was able to extract the tar file that gets
>>> generated when the tar file is written into stdout. I tested the
>>> the compressed tar also.
>>>
>>> This bug needs to be fixed in back branches also.
>>
>> Seems reasonable. One question:
>>
>> In the patch, you used "_setmode" function, while the calls in
>> src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c use "setmode". There are a few
>> places in the backend that also use "_setmode". What's the difference?
>> Should we change some of them to be consistent?
>
> Actually there is no functional difference between these two functions.
> one is a POSIX variant and another one is ISO C++ variant [1]. The support
> of POSIX variant is deprecated in windows, because of this reason we should
> use the _setmode instead of setmode.
>
> I attached the patch to change the pg_dump code to use _setmode function
> instead of _setmode to be consistent with other functions.

Ok, committed and backpatched both patches. Thanks!

- Heikki