Re: Return pg_control from pg_backup_stop().

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Haibo Yan <tristan(dot)yim(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgbackrest(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Return pg_control from pg_backup_stop().
Date: 2026-03-17 05:51:12
Message-ID: abjr0A2IfnBvuHJw@paquier.xyz
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:16:58PM -0700, Haibo Yan wrote:
> I have not read the code yet, so this may already be answered there,
> but I had a question about the proposal itself. This patch protects
> against a missing backup_label, but what about a wrong one? If a
> user restores a backup_label file from a different backup, the
> existence check alone would not detect that. Do we need some
> consistency check between the returned pg_control copy and the
> backup_label contents, or is the intended scope here limited to the
> “missing file” case only?

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