Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile

[Andrew Dunstan]

> On Mar 28, 2026, at 7:34 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 11:37 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> It looks like to make this test stable on modern FreeBSD,
>>> we need to see if tar accepts --no-read-sparse and use that
>>> switch if so.
> 
>> Yeah.  Here's my attempt at perl.
> 
> Andrew might have some stylistic suggestions, but this looks
> plausible to me.

Looks basically ok to me, although I wouldn’t make the variable name all caps.

Cheers

Andrew