Re: pgsql: Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.

2020-04-07 Thread David Steele
On 4/7/20 12:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 2020-04-03 21:07, Robert Haas wrote: A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the manifest. In software engineering, "verify" and "validate" have standardized distinct me

Re: pgsql: Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.

2020-04-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:51 AM Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2020-04-03 21:07, Robert Haas wrote: > > A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the > > manifest. > > In software engineering, "verify" and "validate" have standardized > distinct meanings. I'm not going to try

Re: pgsql: Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.

2020-04-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2020-04-03 21:07, Robert Haas wrote: A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the manifest. In software engineering, "verify" and "validate" have standardized distinct meanings. I'm not going to try to explain them here, but you can easily find them online. I hav