Re: pg_start_backup: file has vanished from pg_subtrans/

On 08/07/2015 07:20 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Leo Baltus wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While backing up some postgresql-8.4.2 instances using
>> pg_start_backup()/pg_stop_backup()
>
> 8.4.2 was released in 2009, so you're missing all the bugfixes till July
> 2014 which is when the 8.4 branch was dropped out of support -- which
> means you're also missing bugfixes from that point onwards. I think you
> need to jump to 8.4.22 (the last one in that release) because this might
> be a fixed bug; and you should consider moving to one of the supported
> branches very soon, at least 9.0 but that one's going to lose support
> soon too so I may suggest something even newer.

That being said, I thought:

file has vanished: "............./data/pg_subtrans/3A37"

would not be a bug but normal behavior.

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Adrian Klaver
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