Re: pg_basebackup with a twist?

On 2/2/18 14:40, Ray Stell wrote:
> I have a fairly busy primary that I put a symlink in to move pg_xlog
> over to another I/O subsystem.   I was going to build a standby with
> pg_basebackup running the command from the standby host.  I thought
> maybe I could put the symlink in on the new standby, but no go: 
> "pg_basebackup: directory "/database/test.basebackup/" exists but is not
> empty" as documented.  Is the only way to do this to "fix" it up after
> the restore?   I want to use the "-x" option in order to get the WAL
> during the backup.  Just curious, my guess is I'll have to build the
> stby from a intermediate file.  TIA.

pg_basebackup has a --waldir or --xlogdir (depending on version) option
for this, analogous to initdb.

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