On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Linas Virbalas
<linas.virbalas@continuent.com> wrote:
> But on the standby its size is the old one (thus, it seems, that the size
> changed after the rsync transfer and before the pg_stop_backup() was
> called):
Now that seems pretty weird - I don't think that file should ever shrink.
Are you sure that the rsync isn't starting until after
pg_start_backup() completes? Because if you were starting it just a
tiny bit early, that would explain the observed symptoms perfectly, I
think.
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