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From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 03:37:26 +1300
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Subject: Re: pg_waldump: support decoding of WAL inside tarfile
To: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>,
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2026 at 12:38=E2=80=AFAM Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.c=
om> wrote:
> I also tried Thomas'
> "v2-0001-Improve-tar-portability-logic-from-ebba64c0" [3] but it
> didn't fix the problem on OpenBSD [4].

Apparently it wants -F ustar, like this.  Funny that it passed on the
build farm animals though.  Oh, it looks like they changed the default
fairly recently.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=3Darticle;sid=3D20240417053301

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