Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups
Date: 2011-01-16 17:59:35
Message-ID: 9679.1295200775@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Well, we'd try to name the file for that "<oid>-/foo/bar.tar", which I
> guess would break badly, yes.

> I guess we could normalize the tablespace name into [a-zA-Z0-9] or so,
> which would still be useful for the majority of cases, I think?

Just stick with the OID. There's no reason that I can see to have
"friendly" names for these tarfiles --- in most cases, the DBA will
never even deal with them, no?

regards, tom lane

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