From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>
Cc: Matheus de Oliveira <matioli.matheus@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: pg_basebackup bug: base backup is double the size of the database
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:19:12 -0500
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:01:15AM -0800, Craig James wrote:
> If I'm not overlooking, then neither barman nor pg_basebackup is to blame,
> but whoever created the hard links; if PostgreSQL did this (which I doubt)
> then it is a bug.
>
>
> As I said, I absolutely didn't create these links. I never, ever monkey with
> the innards of the Postgres tablespaces. Never have, never will. It had to be
> done by Postgres, pg_upgrade or some other Postgres binary.
If you used --link mode, it does create hard links between the old and
new clusters, which is clearly documented.
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