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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jonathan Gonzalez V. <jonathan@abdiel.eu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Introduce psystem() to replace system()
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:12:26 -0500
Message-ID: <anypegmIZfURWOzy@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf4e5496-ec09-429e-b8df-7d450c721154@eisentraut.org>
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 07:05:36PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 11.08.26 01:00, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think breaking the existing definition of archive_command and
>> similar GUCs is a nonstarter. You're going to make many users
>> unhappy and only a tiny minority happier.
>
> Right. The direction should be, you don't have to use archive_command.
> There is already an alternative in archive_library, or indirectly by using
> something like pg_receivewal. Similar alternatives could be designed for
> other cases where a shell command appears in a public API.
+1. This conversation makes me wonder about reviving the "restore modules"
work [0].
[0] https://postgr.es/m/flat/20221227192449.GA3672473%40nathanxps13
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