Admonitions call out places where the user should take special care.
Support added for HTML, PDF, Markdown and help text renderers. XML files have been updated accordingly.
Contributed by Cynthia Shang.
Use checksums rather than timestamps to determine if files have changed. This is useful in cases where the timestamps may not be trustworthy, e.g. when performing an incremental after failing over to a standby.
If checksum delta is enabled then checksums will be used for verification of resumed backups, even if they are full. Resumes have always used checksums to verify the files in the repository, enabling delta performs checksums on the database files as well.
Note that the user must manually enable this feature in cases were it would be useful or just keep in enabled all the time. A future commit will address automatically enabling the feature in cases where it seems likely to be useful.
Contributed by Cynthia Shang.
This option was previously allowed on the command-line only for no particular reason that we could determine.
Being able to specify it in the config file seems like a good idea and won't change current usage.
Contributed by Cynthia Shang.
Offline operation runs counter to the purpose of this command, which is to check if archiving and backups are working correctly.
Reported by Jason O'Donnell.
pgBackRest currently has no way to request new credentials so the entire command (e.g. backup, restore) must complete before the credentials expire.
Contributed by Yogesh Sharma.
Configuration files are loaded from the directory specified by the --config-include-path option.
Add --config-path option for overriding the default base path of the --config and --config-include-path option.
Contributed by Cynthia Shang.
Previously, functions with sensitive options had to be logged at trace level to avoid exposing them. Trace level logging may still expose secrets so use with caution.
* Move repository options into a separate section in command/command-line help. (Suggested by Stephen Frost.)
* Fix description of --online based on the command context.
* Remove vestigial repository options from backup command.
The options accommodate systems where CAs are not automatically found by IO::Socket::SSL, i.e. RHEL7, or to load custom CAs.
Suggested by Scott Frazer.
Refactor storage layer to allow for new repository filesystems using drivers. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Refactor IO layer to allow for new compression formats, checksum types, and other capabilities using filters. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
The stanza-upgrade command provides a mechanism for upgrading a stanza after upgrading to a new major version of PostgreSQL.
Contributed by Cynthia Shang.
