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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Jean-Armel Luce <jaluce06@gmail.com>
Cc: Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: [ADMIN] <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: rsync and streaming replication
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:08:49 -0700
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On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Jean-Armel Luce wrote:

> just for the value : rsync --checksum is the option to use to prevent
> copying of identical files

No, that's not what it's used for. It already avoids sending identical blocks by using checksums. --checksum forces a checksum on files that have identical sizes & mod times, thus catching files that have different contents despite having the same mod times & sizes.

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