Re: Trying out libarchive for reading user-generated WAL tarballs

On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Perhaps that could be fixed if astreamer_file.c provided
> > "astreamer_file_reader" with the same semantics, so that it could
> > unconditionally call astreamer_pull(privateInfo->archive_streamer),
> > instead of doing the read, push-into-stream itself? Just a thought.
>
> That seems to work.

Added to open commitfest as
https://commitfest.postgresql.org/patch/6665/. But I should have
waited for CI before posting the last version, because it eventually
reminded me that Windows needs:

- streamer->file = fopen(pathname, "r");
+ streamer->file = fopen(pathname, "rb");