On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Amit Kapila <
amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Amit Kapila <
amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > > Sorry, I was not paying very close attention to this thread and missed
> > > the request for comments. A few such:
> > >
> > > 1. The patch is completely naive about what might be in the symlink
> > > path string; eg embedded spaces in the path would break it. On at
> > > least some platforms, newlines could be in the path as well. I'm not
> > > sure about how to guard against this while maintaining human readability
> > > of the file.
> > >
> >
> > I will look into this and see what best can be done.
> >
>
> I have chosen #3 (Make pg_basebackup check for and fail on symlinks
> containing characters (currently newline only) it can't handle) from the
> different options suggested by Tom. This keeps the format same as
> previous and human readable.
>
Actually, here instead of an error a warning is issued and that particular
path (containing new line) will be skipped. This is similar to what
is already done for the cases when there is any problem in reading
link paths.