Re: Proposal: pg_rewind to skip config files

On 2017-09-04 11:53, Chris Travers wrote:
> In some experiments with pg_rewind and rep mgr I noticed that local
> testing is complicated by the fact that pg_rewind appears to copy
> configuration files from the source to target directory.
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> I would propose to make a modest patch to exclude postgresql.conf,
> pg_hba.conf, and pg_ident.conf from the file tree traversal.
>
> Any feedback before I create.a proof of concept?
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And we had production issue with pg_rewind which copied huge textual
logs from pg_log (20GB each, cause statements were logged for
statistic). It will be convenient to tell pg_rewind not to copy logs
too.

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