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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Link t the souce code
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:21:07 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2021-Jul-21, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 21.07.21 01:45, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >   <screen>
> > -<userinput>gunzip postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>
> > -<userinput>tar xf postgresql-&version;.tar</userinput>
> > +<userinput>tar xfa postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>
> >   </screen>
> 
> The "a" option only applies when creating a tar archive ("c" command). So
> adding it here does nothing.

Oh, so the current `tar x` knows to uncompress the file without any
additional options?  I've been pointlessly adding 'z', 'j', 'a' for years ...
That means we can remove the `gunzip` line and replace it with nothing.
WFM ...

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Álvaro Herrera              Valdivia, Chile  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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