I was just curious to know how would "pg_basebackup" behave if we do create a symbolic link for directories other than pg_xlog/pg_tblspc. However it is clearly mentioned in the documentation of pg_basebackup that if a Symbolic link for the directories other than pg_tblspc and pg_xlog is created then it would be skipped. But, that is not the case for pg_replslot and pg_stat_tmp. Is this not an issue. Should these directories not be skipped. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
Hi, On 2016-04-14 13:43:34 +0530, Ashutosh Sharma wrote: > I tried performing pg_basebackup after creating a symbolic link for > pg_replslot, pg_stat_tmp, pg_log and pg_clog in the source directory
That's not supported, and I strongly suspect that you're goint to hit more than just this issue. The only directory you're allowed to symlink away is pg_xlog.
