Re: BUG #6060: does not work -z option of pg_basebackup

"Shigehiro honda" <fwif0083@mb.infoweb.ne.jp> writes:
> it seems that the -z option of pg_basebackup does not work correctly.
> In getopt_long() function, there is not 'z' in 3rd argument.

Ooops.  Doesn't look like this got tested much (or at all).

> And Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION are defined as (-1) in my zlib.h and it does only
> test (compresslevel > 0) in the code, so the command does not compress
> anyway.

I think it would be sufficient to test (compresslevel != 0) in all these
places, instead of hard-wiring knowledge of Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION.

Will fix, thanks for the report!

> $ diff pg_basebackup.c.DIST pg_basebackup.c

BTW, plain diffs are just about useless, since patch can't apply them
safely if the code has changed at all.  Please send -c or -u format
diffs in future.

            regards, tom lane