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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: Dhaval Shah <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PITR and tar
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 21:46:21 -0400
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"Jim C. Nasby" <[email protected]> writes:
> Does anyone know what the history of the docs saying that GNU tar had
> issues with files changing underneath it? According to this report it's
> actually BSD tar that has the issue.

It seems to be a different issue.  The problem with GNU tar is that it
issues a warning and exits with nonzero status, which is a problem for
backup scripts because they can't easily distinguish this case from an
actual failure.  But AFAIK the output file is self-consistent anyway.
It sounds like bsd tar is just plain broken :-(

			regards, tom lane

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