Re: Include WAL in base backup

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:03, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:45, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>>>>> - Why not initialize logid and logseg like so?:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        int logid = startptr.xlogid;
>>>>>>        int logseg = startptr.xrecoff / XLogSegSize;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Then use those in your elog?  Seems cleaner to me.
>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Yes. Agreed.
>>>>
>>>> Marginal complaint here: int is the wrong type, I'm pretty sure.
>>>
>>> And, we should use XLByteToPrevSeg here instead of just =, I think.
>>
>> Not XLByteToSeg?
>
> Checking... yeah, you are right. We should use XLByteToSeg since
> the REDO starting WAL record doesn't exist in the previous WAL
> segment when the REDO starting location is a boundary byte.

Here's an updated version of the patch:

* rebased on the current git master (including changing the switch
from -w to -x since -w was used now)
* includes some documentation
* use XLogByteToSeg and uint32 as mentioned here
* refactored to remove SendBackupDirectory(), removing the ugly closetar boolean

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