Re: Support for pg_receivexlog --post-segment command

On 1/6/17 10:15 AM, Feike Steenbergen wrote:
>
> On 6 January 2017 at 15:42, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net
> <mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>> wrote:
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>> Is there actual value in providing both %p and %f? It's not like it's
> really hard to do, but since the path will be specified on the same
> commandline, you could just put it in the command?
>
> As %f can be determined from %p I don't mind that much. However, having
> a single static --whatever command may be very useful for configuration
> management or backup tools that want to use static commands.
>
> The other reason why I'd offer both is to have some uniformity with
> archive_command, possibly allowing some reuse of code.

Agreed. Currently pgBackRest only accepts %p for archive_command
because it already knows where $PGDATA is. Of course I can change that,
but I think it makes sense to keep command options uniform anyway.

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-David
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