Re: refactoring basebackup.c

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:39 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> The way the gzip APIs I used work, you tell it how big the output
> buffer is and it writes until it fills that buffer, or until the input
> buffer is empty, whichever happens first. But this seems to be the
> other way around: you tell it how much input you have, and it tells
> you how big a buffer it needs. To handle that elegantly, I think I
> need to make some changes to the design of the bbsink stuff. What I'm
> thinking is that each bbsink somehow tells the next bbsink how big to
> make the buffer.

Here's a new patch set with that design change (and a bug fix for 0001).

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Robert Haas
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