Re: pg_basebackup Compression Problem

Thanks , This could be the Case external gzip is working fine . Also I will
check same on 64 bit OS

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Ankur Kaushik <ankurkaushik(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> OS Config :
>>
>> Linux 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 18:25:17 UTC 2015 i686
>> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
>> Kernel \r on an \m
>>
>> When We do with manual gzip to to generated tar it works but problem when
>> we do with pg_basebackup
>>
>>
> This is a 32-bit operating system. pg_basebackup does not use whatever
> features are in libz for dealing with files larger than 4Gb on a 32-bit
> operating system, so that's your issue right there.
>
> How did you find yourself with a 32-bit operating system in 2017? I think
> the general idea when we built that into pg_basebackup was that nobody with
> anything that big would be running a 32-bit operating system those days,
> and certainly not now..
>
> Your workaround for that is to make pg_basebackup write to stdout, and use
> an external gzip in a pipe.
>
> //Magnus
>
>