Re: BUG #4179: pg_standby reports "file size greater than expected" - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #4179: pg_standby reports "file size greater than expected"
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Msg-id 326.1211050128@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #4179: pg_standby reports "file size greater than expected"  ("Reinhard Zitzmann" <rz2008@insode.de>)
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"Reinhard Zitzmann" <rz2008@insode.de> writes:
> When copying a WAL file with "cp --sparse=always ..." to a remote NFS
> directory, the remote file becomes 16777217 bytes long for a short
> time.

Seems to me this is a bug in cp, not Postgres.

            regards, tom lane

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