Re: pg_basebackup wish list

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:06 AM, Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut
>> <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/12/16 12:53 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
>>>> The --help message for pg_basebackup says:
>>>>
>>>> -Z, --compress=0-9     compress tar output with given compression level
>>>>
>>>> But -Z0 is then rejected as 'invalid compression level "0"'.  The real
>>>> docs do say 1-9, only the --help message has this bug.  Trivial patch
>>>> attached.
>>>
>>> pg_dump --help and man page say it supports 0..9.  Maybe we should make
>>> that more consistent.
>>
>> pg_dump actually does support -Z0, though.  Well, sort of.  It outputs
>> plain text.  Rather than plain text wrapped in some kind of dummy gzip
>> header, which is what I had naively expected.
>>
>> Is that what -Z0 in pg_basebackup should do as well, just output
>> uncompressed tar data, and not add the ".gz" to the "base.tar" file
>> name?
>
> Yes, I think. What about the attached patch?


Barring any objection, I will commit this patch.

Regards,

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Fujii Masao