Re: Refactor backup related code (was: Is it correct to say, "invalid data in file \"%s\"", BACKUP_LABEL_FILE in do_pg_backup_stop?)

From: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Refactor backup related code (was: Is it correct to say, "invalid data in file \"%s\"", BACKUP_LABEL_FILE in do_pg_backup_stop?)
Date: 2022-09-21 10:40:38
Message-ID: CALj2ACXMkP2_nigv7B0PauOdzdi4d4w29wLEKdHBcTdLv0JpdQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:15 PM Fujii Masao
<masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
> This looks much complicated to me.
>
> Instead of making allocate_backup_state() or reset_backup_state()
> store the label name in BackupState before do_pg_backup_start(),
> how about making do_pg_backup_start() do that after checking its length?
> Seems this can simplify the code very much.
>
> If so, ISTM that we can replace allocate_backup_state() and
> reset_backup_state() with just palloc0() and MemSet(), respectively.
> Also we can remove fill_backup_label_name().

Yes, that makes things simpler. I will post the v10 patch-set soon.

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Bharath Rupireddy
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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