Re: TAP / recovery-test fs-level backups, psql enhancements etc

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 4 March 2016 at 05:08, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Patches 0004 and 0007 remain.
>
> For readers who're not following closely that's the filtering support for
> RecursiveCopy and the support for taking filesystem-level backups in
> PostgresNode that uses it.

I am still not sure that the filter for pg_log by default is that useful but...

>> I think 0007 is uncontroversial; I
>> reworked 0004 a bit and gave it to someone else to finish a couple of
>> didn't I didn't quite like -- hopefully she'll be submitting a new
>> version soonish.  Once we have that I'm happy to push them too.
>
> Great, thanks.

No objections from here as well for the feature itself. I am glad to
see interest in extending the current infrastructure, and just
wondering what kind of tests are going to show up.
-- 
Michael