Re: backup manifests

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Suraj Kharage <suraj(dot)kharage(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, tushar <tushar(dot)ahuja(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi <rajkumar(dot)raghuwanshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Rushabh Lathia <rushabh(dot)lathia(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tels <nospam-pg-abuse(at)bloodgate(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: backup manifests
Date: 2020-04-02 19:02:55
Message-ID: 20200402190255.xx6wbuubh45dgdhp@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2020-04-02 14:55:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Yes, I am asking for something to be changed: I'd like the code that
> > read()s the file when computing the checksum to add up how many bytes
> > were read, and compare that to the size in the manifest. And if there's
> > a difference report an error about that, instead of a checksum failure.
> >
> > I've repeatedly seen filesystem issues lead to to earlier EOFs when
> > read()ing than what stat() returns. It'll be pretty annoying to have to
> > debug a general "checksum failure", rather than just knowing that
> > reading stopped after 100MB of 1GB.
>
> Is 0004 attached like what you have in mind?

Yes. Thanks!

- Andres

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