From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: c@osss.net
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:20:48 +0100
Message-ID: <ZbDWcN4YzLDBf4O2@msg.df7cb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8C23AFD9-4FCA-4FFD-8611-1B81BACCD25A@osss.net>
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Re: c@osss.net
> pg_basebackup can throw an error which is inaccurate and misleading:
>
> $ mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/14
Hi Casey,
what previous error/message lead you to create that directory? The
data directory should be existing before.
What does `pg_lsclusters` report?
Where is the actual data directory of that cluster?
Christoph
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