Re: pg_basebackup for streaming base backups

Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of mar ene 18 10:47:03 -0300 2011:

> Ok, thanks for clarifying. I've updated to use strerror(). Guess it's
> time for another patch, PFA :-)

Thanks ...  Message nitpick:
+   if (compresslevel > 0)
+   {
+       fprintf(stderr,
+               _("%s: this build does not support compression\n"),
+               progname);
+       exit(1);
+   }

pg_dump uses the following wording:

"WARNING: archive is compressed, but this installation does not support "
"compression -- no data will be available\n"

So perhaps yours should s/build/installation/


Also, in messages of this kind,
+               if (gzsetparams(ztarfile, compresslevel, Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY) != Z_OK)
+               {
+                   fprintf(stderr, _("%s: could not set compression level %i\n"),
+                           progname, compresslevel);

Shouldn't you also be emitting the gzerror()? ... oh I see you're
already doing it for most gz calls.

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