Re: pg_basebackup wish list

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 7/12/16 12:53 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
>> The --help message for pg_basebackup says:
>>
>> -Z, --compress=0-9 compress tar output with given compression level
>>
>> But -Z0 is then rejected as 'invalid compression level "0"'. The real
>> docs do say 1-9, only the --help message has this bug. Trivial patch
>> attached.
>
> pg_dump --help and man page say it supports 0..9. Maybe we should make
> that more consistent.

pg_dump actually does support -Z0, though. Well, sort of. It outputs
plain text. Rather than plain text wrapped in some kind of dummy gzip
header, which is what I had naively expected.

Is that what -Z0 in pg_basebackup should do as well, just output
uncompressed tar data, and not add the ".gz" to the "base.tar" file
name?

Cheers,

Jeff