Hi.
This is a followup to a 2014-02 discussion that led to pg_stats_temp
being excluded from pg_basebackup. At the time, it was discussed to
exclude pg_log as well, but nothing eventually came of that.
Recently, one of our customers has had a basebackup fail because pg_log
contained files that were >8GB:
FATAL: archive member "pg_log/postgresql-20150119.log" too large for tar format
I think pg_basebackup should also skip pg_log entries, as it does for
pg_stats_temp and pg_replslot, etc. I've attached a patch along those
lines for discussion.
-- Abhijit
P.S. Aren't we leaking statrelpath?
