Seriously ? Why would you guys use symbol link in Makefile ?

[JPewterschmidt]

Hi hackers from pg_probackup:

It's so strange that some of you uses symbol link in the Makefile to compile some basebackup sutff into pg_probackup.
Why the one dare to do that ? what if others change the behavior of basebackup? Waste his/her/their time to coordinate both tools ?

[JPewterschmidt]

Are you guys children ? sh*t. I give you guys an example: in src/backup.c you wrote:

//const char *progname = "pg_probackup";

and then If the WAL are corrupted, when constructing the error message, the the source code which you guys symlinked from other shit trying to pass this variable to psnprintf, and boom, ASSERTION FAILED!!!!! in debug mode.
And only the dear god know what gonna happen in Release mode, sigsegv ?

you guys are wasting my time, wasting all the PGer's time.

[JPewterschmidt]

I knew what you thought, If you don't comment this code out, there will be a multiple definition. And you guys just commented it out ?

[JPewterschmidt]

you guys are so naive