On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > Right now, if you use > > pg_basebackup -Ft -D - > > you get a tarfile, written to stdout, for redirection. > > However, if you use: > > pg_basebackup -Fp -D - > > you get a plaintext (unpackaged) backup, in a directory called "-". > > I can't think of a single usecase where this is a good idea. Therefor, > I would suggest we simply throw an error in this case, instead of > creating the directory. Only for the specific case of specifying > exactly "-" as a directory. > > Comments? Isn't this a non-problem? This behavior is in line with the documentation, so I would suspected that if directory name is specified as "-" in plain mode, it should create the folder with this name. Do you consider having a folder of this name an annoyance?
> Also, if we do that, is this something we should consider > backpatchable? It's not strictly speaking a bugfix, but I'd say it > fixes some seriously annoying behavior. This would change the spec of pg_basebackup, so no? Does the current behavior have potential security issues? My 2c. Regards, -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
