On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Isn't it better to forbid the conbination of the options "-D -", "-F t" and > "-X stream" in pg_basebackup? This is obviously invalid setting and the > docs > warns this as follows. But currently users can specify such setting and > pg_basebackup can exit unexpectedly with an error. > > ----------------------- > If the value - (dash) is specified as target directory, the tar contents > will > be written to standard output, suitable for piping to for example gzip. > This is only possible if the cluster has no additional tablespaces. > ----------------------- > Yes, definitely. I'd say that's an oversight in implementing the support for stream-to-tar that it did not detect this issue. Do you want to provide a patch for it, or should I? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
