On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 3:41 PM Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com> wrote: > Are we using any tar library in pg_basebackup.c? We already have the capability > in pg_basebackup to do that.
I think pg_basebackup is using homebrew code to generate tar files, but I'm reluctant to do that for reading tar files. For generating a file, you can always emit the newest and "best" tar format, but for reading a file, you probably want to be prepared for older or cruftier variants. Maybe not -- I'm not super-familiar with the tar on-disk format. But I think there must be a reason why tar libraries exist, and I don't want to write a new one.
+1 using the library to tar. But I think reason not using tar library is TAR is
one of the most simple file format. What is the best/newest format of TAR?