| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Dhaval Shah <dhaval(dot)shah(dot)m(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] PITR and tar |
| Date: | 2007-05-14 01:46:21 |
| Message-ID: | 23024.1179107181@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had
> issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's
> actually BSD tar that has the issue.
It seems to be a different issue. The problem with GNU tar is that it
issues a warning and exits with nonzero status, which is a problem for
backup scripts because they can't easily distinguish this case from an
actual failure. But AFAIK the output file is self-consistent anyway.
It sounds like bsd tar is just plain broken :-(
regards, tom lane
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