Re: pgsql: Add 'basebackup_to_shell' contrib module.

Hi,

On 2022-03-29 17:19:44 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 4:36 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > It failed:
> >
> > https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5567070686412800
> > https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/task/5567070686412800/log/contrib/basebackup_to_shell/tmp_check/log/001_basic_primary.log
> > https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/task/5567070686412800/log/contrib/basebackup_to_shell/tmp_check/log/regress_log_001_basic
>
> Hmm. The log here is not very informative. It just says that the first
> time we tried to use the 'shell' target, it timed out. I suppose the
> most obvious explanation for that is that the shell command we
> executed timed out:
>
> qq{type con > "$escaped_backup_path\\\\%f"}
>
> But why should that be so? Does 'type con' not respond to EOF?

This is trying to write stdin into a file? I think the problem may be that con
doesn't represent stdin, it it's console input. I think consoles are a
separate thing from stdin on windows - you can have console input, even while
stdin is coming from a file or such.

Didn't immediate find a reference to a cat equivalent. Maybe just gzip the
file? That can read from stdin across platforms afaict.

Greetings,

Andres Freund