Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-05-26 at 17:06 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > pg_basebackup currently doesn't allow compressed tar to stdout. That > > should be added to make the interface consistent, and specifically to > > allow common idoms like > > > pg_basebackup -Ft -z -D - | ssh tar -

Re: [HACKERS] pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout

2011-05-26 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > pg_basebackup currently doesn't allow compressed tar to stdout. That > should be added to make the interface consistent, and specifically to > allow common idoms like > pg_basebackup -Ft -z -D - | ssh tar -x -z -f - > Small patch attached. I have not bothered to read

[HACKERS] pg_basebackup compressed tar to stdout

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
pg_basebackup currently doesn't allow compressed tar to stdout. That should be added to make the interface consistent, and specifically to allow common idoms like pg_basebackup -Ft -z -D - | ssh tar -x -z -f - Small patch attached. diff --git i/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml w/doc/src/sgml/