Hi, On 2020-03-27 14:34:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I think #2 is an interesting idea and could possibly reduce the danger > of user confusion on this point considerably - because, let's face it, > not everyone is going to read the documentation. However, I'm having a > hard time figuring out exactly what we'd print. Right now on success, > unless you specify -q, you get: > > [rhaas ~]$ pg_validatebackup ~/pgslave > backup successfully verified > > But it feels strange and possibly confusing to me to print something like: > > [rhaas ~]$ pg_validatebackup ~/pgslave > backup successfully verified (except for pg_wal)
You could print something like: WAL necessary to restore this base backup can be validated with: pg_waldump -p ~/pgslave -t tl -s backup_start_location -e backup_end_loc > /dev/null && echo true Obviously that specific invocation sucks, but it'd not be hard to add an option to waldump to not output anything. Greetings, Andres Freund
