Re: Review of pg_archivecleanup -x option patch

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> The smaller step of automatically stripping the specified suffix from the
> input file name, when it matches the one we've told the program to expect,
> seems like a usability improvement unlikely to lead to bad things though.
>  I've certainly made the mistake you've shown when using the patched version
> of the program myself, just didn't think about catching and correcting it
> myself before.  We can rev this to add that feature and resubmit easily
> enough, will turn that around soon.

This change seems plenty small enough to slip in even at this late
date, but I guess we're lacking a new version of the patch.

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