Re: Improve base backup protocol documentation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Improve base backup protocol documentation
Date: 2019-09-03 10:03:25
Message-ID: 37d3acf9-256d-44b3-6124-e82132739973@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-09-03 09:50, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 4:58 PM Peter Eisentraut
> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
> <mailto:peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> It was apparently entirely undocumented that the tablespace size
> estimates sent by the base backup protocol are in kilobytes.  Here is a
> patch to document that.  Also, a related clarification in the
> pg_basebackup.c source code: It was not clear without analyzing the
> whole stack that "totalsize" is in kilobytes and "totaldone" is in
> bytes.
>
>
> +1, these both look like reasonable changes to me.

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