Don't include file type bits in tar archive's mode field. The "file mode" bits in the tar file header is not supposed to include the file type bits, e.g. S_IFREG or S_IFDIR. The file type is stored in a separate field. This isn't a problem in practice, all tar programs ignore the extra bits, but let's be tidy.
This came up in a discussion around bug #11949, reported by Hendrik Grewe, although this doesn't fix the issue with tar --append. That turned out to be a bug in GNU tar. Schilly's tartest program revealed this defect in the tar created by pg_basebackup. This problem goes as far as we we've had pg_basebackup, but since this hasn't caused any problems in practice, let's be conservative and fix in master only. Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c0f279c469c87a010fda19647c5453baa5ba97ee Modified Files -------------- src/port/tar.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
