Re: pg_basebackup failed to read a file

On 08/14/2018 09:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mike Cardwell <mike(dot)cardwell(at)hardenize(dot)com> writes:
>
> It'd be nice to have a more coherent theory about what needs to be copied
> or not, and not fail on files that could simply be ignored. Up to now
> we've resisted having any centrally defined knowledge of what can be
> inside a PG data directory, but maybe that bullet needs to be bitten.

This is not the first time, nor the second time this issue has arisen. I
would think we would know that a coherent theory or at least
semi-coherent theory would be pretty easy to resolve. Granted, we can't
reasonably know what is going on under base but under the / of PGDATA,
we know *exactly* what files should and should not be in there.

JD

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