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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup
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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