On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > The files in pg_stat_tmp directory don't need to be backed up because
>>> > they are
>>> > basically reset at the archive recovery. So I think it's worth
>>> > changing pg_basebackup
>>> > so that it skips any files in pg_stat_tmp directory. Thought?
>>>
>>> I think this is good idea, but can't it also avoid
>>> PGSTAT_STAT_PERMANENT_TMPFILE along with temp files in
>>> pg_stat_tmp
>>>
>>
>> All stats files should be excluded. IIRC the PGSTAT_STAT_PERMANENT_TMPFILE
>> refers to just the global one. You want to exclude based on
>> PGSTAT_STAT_PERMANENT_DIRECTORY (and of course based on the guc
>> stats_temp_directory if it's in PGDATA.
>
> Attached patch changes basebackup.c so that it skips all files in both
> pg_stat_tmp
> and stats_temp_directory. Even when a user sets stats_temp_directory
> to the directory
> other than pg_stat_tmp, we need to skip the files in pg_stat_tmp. Because,
> per recent change of pg_stat_statements, the external query file is
> always created there.
Committed.
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
