Re: documenting the backup manifest file format

From: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, 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>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: documenting the backup manifest file format
Date: 2020-04-15 22:43:15
Message-ID: 20200416004315.6ce51273@firost
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:03:28 -0400
Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:23 AM Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
> <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com> wrote:
> > But for backup_manifest, it's kind of shame we have to check the checksum
> > against an transformed version of the file. Did you consider creating eg. a
> > separate backup_manifest.sha256 file?
> >
> > I'm very sorry in advance if this has been discussed previously.
>
> It was briefly mentioned in the original (lengthy) discussion, but I
> think there was one vote in favor and two votes against or something
> like that, so it didn't go anywhere.

Argh.

> I didn't realize that there were handy command-line tools for manipulating
> json like that, or I probably would have considered that idea more strongly.

That was indeed a lengthy thread with various details discussed. I'm sorry I
didn't catch the ball back then.

Regards,

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