Re: invalid combination of options "-D - -F t -X stream" in pg_basebackup

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Isn't it better to forbid the conbination of the options "-D -", "-F t" and
> "-X stream" in pg_basebackup? This is obviously invalid setting and the
> docs
> warns this as follows. But currently users can specify such setting and
> pg_basebackup can exit unexpectedly with an error.
>
> -----------------------
> If the value - (dash) is specified as target directory, the tar contents
> will
> be written to standard output, suitable for piping to for example gzip.
> This is only possible if the cluster has no additional tablespaces.
> -----------------------
>

Yes, definitely. I'd say that's an oversight in implementing the support
for stream-to-tar that it did not detect this issue.

Do you want to provide a patch for it, or should I?

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