Re: pg_basebackup -x/X doesn't play well with archive_mode & wal_keep_segments

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> No need for debugging. It's plain and simply a (cherry-pick) conflict I
> resolved wrongly during backpatching. 9.3, 9.4 and master do not have
> that problem. That whole fix was quite painful because every single
> release had significantly different code :(. pg_basebackup/ is pretty
> messy.
> I'm not sure why my testsuite didn't trigger that problem. Possibly
> because a retry makes things work :(
>
> Somewhat uckily it's 9.2 only (9.3, 9.4 and master look correct, earlier
> releases don't have pg_receivexlog) and can quite easily be worked
> around by creating the archive_status directory.

The workaround works perfectly for me in this case, I'm going to
updrade it up to 9.4 anyway soon.

Thank you, Andres.

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