On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:23 AM Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <j...@dalibo.com> wrote: > But for backup_manifest, it's kind of shame we have to check the checksum > against an transformed version of the file. Did you consider creating eg. a > separate backup_manifest.sha256 file? > > I'm very sorry in advance if this has been discussed previously.
It was briefly mentioned in the original (lengthy) discussion, but I think there was one vote in favor and two votes against or something like that, so it didn't go anywhere. I didn't realize that there were handy command-line tools for manipulating json like that, or I probably would have considered that idea more strongly. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company