Hi. I have a need to pipe the output from pg_basebackup for a multi-tablespace cluster into another program without spooling to disk. Seeing as the current -F tar output format can't do that, I've made an attempt at implementing that myself.
As a side effect I've refactored the some of the pg_basebackup code for readability and reusability, as well as implemented support for longer filenames in tar output (not used by default for compatibility). There is also a fix for a bug where pg_basebackup will drop a zero-length file at the end of a tablespace's tar stream. I've put my changes up as a series of relatively small commits on this branch of a github fork: https://github.com/jre/postgres/commits/single-tar Comments and suggestions are welcome. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
