On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:49:33 -0500
Rui DeSousa <rui(dot)desousa(at)icloud(dot)com> wrote:
> Really? I think you really need to think about it. You are dealing
> with a race condition.
Not at all, assuming rsync is being called by PostgreSQL's archive_command.
> You are dealing with a race condition involving filesystem metadata.
Nope. Not true. What are the things that are racing?
If you rsync data to make a base backup, then yes, use -c... but not because
of any race condition. Instead, it's because of the coarse filesystem
timestamp granularity.
Regards,
Dianne.