On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:04 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> > Why don't you just use Archive::Tar [1] instead of looking for some system
> > commands? Combining list_files() with extract(), it is possible to
> > extract an archive, with
Robert Haas writes:
> Well, either this or Noah's method has the disadvantage that not
> everyone will get the benefit of the tests, and that those who wish to
> get that benefit must install more stuff. But, all three of the
> computers I have within arm's reach (yeah, I might have a problem)
> h
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 3:04 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
> Why don't you just use Archive::Tar [1] instead of looking for some system
> commands? Combining list_files() with extract(), it is possible to
> extract an archive, with or without compression, without hoping for an
> equivalent to exist o
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:53:51PM -0800, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:32:52PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Now, there's nothing to prevent us from running commands like this
>> from the pg_basebackup tests, but it doesn't seem like we could really
>> check anything meaningful. Pe
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:32:52PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> It would probably be good to fix as much of this as we can, but there
> are a couple of cases I think would be particularly good to cover. One
> is 'pg_basebackup -Ft -Xnone -D -', which tries to write the output as
> a single tar file
