Re: block-level incremental backup

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:21 PM Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> I have not yet completed the review for 0004, but I have few more
> comments. Tomorrow I will try to complete the review and some testing
> as well.
>
> 1. It seems that the output full backup generated with
> pg_combinebackup also contains the "INCREMENTAL BACKUP REFERENCE WAL
> LOCATION". It seems confusing
> because now this is a full backup, not the incremental backup.
>

Yes, that was remaining and was in my TODO.
Done in the new patchset. Also, taking --label as an input like
pg_basebackup.

>
> 2.
> + memset(outblocks, 0, sizeof(FileOffset) * RELSEG_SIZE);
>
> I don't think you need to memset this explicitly as you can initialize
> the array itself no?
> FileOffset outblocks[RELSEG_SIZE] = {{0}}
>

I didn't see any issue with memset either but changed this per your
suggestion.

>
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> Regards,
> Dilip Kumar
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