On 4/14/16 3:01 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > On 2016-04-14 14:55:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >>> On 2016-04-14 13:43:34 +0530, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: >>>> I tried performing pg_basebackup after creating a symbolic link for >>>> pg_replslot, pg_stat_tmp, pg_log and pg_clog in the source directory >>> >>> That's not supported, and I strongly suspect that you're goint to hit >>> more than just this issue. The only directory you're allowed to symlink >>> away is pg_xlog. >> >> I think various tools might choke on such a configuration, but I'm not >> entirely sure why we haven't made them all work. Is there some more >> fundamental problem? > > <...> Fsyncing files & directories suddenly needs special care to > fsync the correct directory for a file, lest it's symlinked somewhere.
That's a good point. I'll need to make sure pgBackRest is correctly handling that case on restore. -- -David da...@pgmasters.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
