From: | Marcel Hofstetter <hofstetter(at)jomasoft(dot)ch> |
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To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Solaris tar issues, or other reason why margay fails 010_pg_basebackup? |
Date: | 2024-04-17 13:40:47 |
Message-ID: | 9321a541-e99e-4197-bd56-a7068b5ebcdc@jomasoft.ch |
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Hi Thomas
Using gnu tar helps to make pg_basebackup work.
It fails now at a later step.
Best regards,
Marcel
Am 17.04.2024 um 10:52 schrieb Thomas Munro:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 7:17 PM Marcel Hofstetter
> <hofstetter(at)jomasoft(dot)ch> wrote:
>> Is there a way to configure which tar to use?
>>
>> gnu tar would be available.
>>
>> -bash-5.1$ ls -l /usr/gnu/bin/tar
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 1226248 Jul 1 2022 /usr/gnu/bin/tar
>
> Cool. I guess you could fix the test either by setting
> TAR=/usr/gnu/bin/tar or PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:$PATH.
>
> If we want to understand *why* it doesn't work, someone would need to
> dig into that. It's possible that PostgreSQL is using some GNU
> extension (if so, apparently the BSDs' tar is OK with it too, and I
> guess AIX's and HP-UX's was too in the recent times before we dropped
> those OSes). I vaguely recall (maybe 20 years ago, time flies) that
> Solaris tar wasn't able to extract some tarballs but I can't remember
> why... I'm also happy to leave it at "Sun's tar doesn't work for us,
> we don't know why" if you are.
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