Hi,
On 2018-11-19 21:18:43 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> As has been mentioned elsewhere, there's really a 'right' way to do
> things and allowing PG to be 'extensible' by simply ignoring random
> files showing up isn't that- if we want PG to be extensible in this way
> then we need to provide a mechanism for that to happen.
I still don't buy this argument. I'm giving up here, as I just don't
have enough energy to keep up with this discussion.
FWIW, I think it's bad, that we don't error out on checksum failures in
basebackups by default. And that's only really feasible with a
whitelisting approach.
Greetings,
Andres Freund