Re: pgsql: Allow pg_basebackup to stream transaction log in tar mode

That broke some buildfarm. Looking into it.

//Magnus

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

> Allow pg_basebackup to stream transaction log in tar mode
>
> This will write the received transaction log into a file called
> pg_wal.tar(.gz) next to the other tarfiles instead of writing it to
> base.tar. When using fetch mode, the transaction log is still written to
> base.tar like before, and when used against a pre-10 server, the file
> is named pg_xlog.tar.
>
> To do this, implement a new concept of a "walmethod", which is
> responsible for writing the WAL. Two implementations exist, one that
> writes to a plain directory (which is also used by pg_receivexlog) and
> one that writes to a tar file with optional compression.
>
> Reviewed by Michael Paquier
>
> Branch
> ------
> master
>
> Details
> -------
> http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/56c7d8d4552180fd66fe48423bb2a9
> bb767c2d87
>
> Modified Files
> --------------
> doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml | 18 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/Makefile | 2 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c | 62 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_receivexlog.c | 10 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/receivelog.c | 316 ++++------
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/receivelog.h | 3 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/t/010_pg_basebackup.pl | 6 +-
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/walmethods.c | 886
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/bin/pg_basebackup/walmethods.h | 45 ++
> src/include/pgtar.h | 1 +
> src/port/tar.c | 2 +-
> 11 files changed, 1107 insertions(+), 244 deletions(-)
>
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