On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Alan Nilsson <anils...@apple.com> wrote: > Could someone give me some insight to the following error message: > > [mqsql06:/Volumes/SQL_Set] _postgres% pg_basebackup --user=replicate > --host=mqsql03 -xP -Fp --pgdata=pgsql > 19439890/65873894 kB (29%), 1/1 tablespace > pg_basebackup: could not get transaction log end position from server: > ERROR: archive member "base/17040/25491" too large for tar format > > I find the error message confusing since I have the format explicitly set to > plain. pg_basebackup fetches a full backup from server using tar all the time for performance purposes to reduce the amount of data sent through the stream. pg_basebackup contains some code to decode this tarball and generate a plain format from it. The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single tar member, which is as well the norm for tar.
> Is there a solution/workaround? Not use a pg_basebackup but an external backup solution or a custom script. Break this relation file into several pieces by doing some partitions on it. > Can I break up the referenced file somehow? Partitions on the parent table. Regards, -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
