On 10/28/16 11:53 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
In 9.6 and earlier, if you change pg_stat_tmp to be a symlink,
basebackups no longer work. That's because we create symlink entry in
the tarfile for it instead of an empty directory, but with no data,
which Breaks Everything (TM).
This was fixed in head in 6ad8ac60, which introduced "more excludes",
due to the refactoring. That commit message refers to it also fixing
this bug, but it seems the bugfix was never backpatched.
Or did I miss something?
I don't think so. I guess it got lost in the CF rush and also slipped
my mind when I reviewed the final commit.
Attached patch fixds this (based on 9.5 which is where I ran into it,
but it needs to go in other back branches as well) by bringing back a
(modified) version of the functoin _tarWriteDir() to the back branches.
I'd appreciate a look-over before committing, but it works fine in my tests.
The patch looks sane to me, but I think it would be good to backpatch
the TAP test from the exclusion patch that tests pg_replslot as a symlink.
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-David
da...@pgmasters.net
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