Re: refactoring basebackup.c

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 3:54 AM Dipesh Pandit <dipesh.pandit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. This makes sense.
>
> +#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
> +   /*
> +    * If the user has requested a server compressed archive along with archive
> +    * extraction at client then we need to decompress it.
> +    */
> +   if (format == 'p' && compressmethod == COMPRESSION_GZIP &&
> +           compressloc == COMPRESS_LOCATION_SERVER)
> +       streamer = bbstreamer_gzip_decompressor_new(streamer);
> +#endif
>
> I think it is not required to have HAVE_LIBZ check in pg_basebackup.c
> while creating a new gzip writer/decompressor. This check is already
> in place in bbstreamer_gzip_writer_new() and bbstreamer_gzip_decompressor_new()
> and it throws an error in case the build does not have required library
> support. I have removed this check from pg_basebackup.c and updated
> a delta patch. The patch can be applied on v5 patch.

Right, makes sense. Committed with that change, plus I realized the
skip count in the test case file was wrong after the changes I made
yesterday, so I fixed that as well.

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