Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
Date: 2026-04-02 16:29:52
Message-ID: 3565835.1775147392@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> So I think we need something like the attached, in addition
>> to what I sent before. This just makes astreamer_tar.c use
>> the isValidTarHeader function that pg_dump already had.

> LGTM.

Pushed, thanks for reviewing! In the event I decided to back-patch to
v18, where these fixes could protect pg_verifybackup against tar files
it can't handle. In older branches the astreamer (nee bbstreamer)
logic only exists inside pg_basebackup, and IIUC that's not really
exposed to tar files that weren't made by our own code. So I did
not bother with back-patching further, though it'd be possible to
do that if someone knows a scenario where it'd matter.

regards, tom lane

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