From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Mitsumasa KONDO <kondo(dot)mitsumasa(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pg_basebackup and pg_stat_tmp directory |
Date: | 2014-02-03 01:47:43 |
Message-ID: | CAHGQGwGDMOJ6WMQwBtenu21jZK-unjW2b6nCvF=ae-sBsSy33A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 2/2/14, 10:23 AM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>> I'm thinking to change basebackup.c so that it compares the
>> name of the directory that it's trying to back up and the setting
>> value of log_directory parameter, then, if they are the same,
>> it just skips the directory. The patch that I sent upthread does
>> this regarding stats_temp_directory.
>
> I'm undecided on whether log files should be copied, but in case we
> decide not to, it needs to be considered whether we at least recreate
> the pg_log directory on the standby. Otherwise weird things will happen
> when you start the standby, and it would introduce an extra fixup step
> to sort that out.
Yes, basically we should skip only files under pg_log, but not pg_log
directory itself.
> Extra credit for doing something useful when pg_log is a symlink.
>
> I fear, however, that if you end up implementing all that logic, it
> would become too much special magic.
ISTM that pg_xlog has already been handled in that way by basebackup.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
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