Re: documenting the backup manifest file format

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr(at)dalibo(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: documenting the backup manifest file format
Date: 2020-04-15 16:03:28
Message-ID: CA+TgmobE88Y_dgbBJA2xBw+RX1Zv4M0sXNCfqy4POG3m2ewTQw@mail.gmail.com
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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. 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.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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