On 8/20/14 2:23 PM, Craig James wrote:
> The pg_basebackup man page
> <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/app-pgbasebackup.html>
> says: "Only regular files and directories are allowed in the data
> directory, no symbolic links or special device files."
>
> But when I look in /data/postgres/main/pg_tblspc, all of the files are
> symbolic links.
It's a bit imprecise. I think you will find this language improved in
the PostgreSQL 9.4 man page:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-pgbasebackup.html
