Re: pg_rewind fails with in-place tablespace - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: pg_rewind fails with in-place tablespace
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Msg-id ZL97ijwFAN+Z1Yqd@paquier.xyz
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In response to pg_rewind fails with in-place tablespace  ("赵锐(惜元)" <xiyuan.zr@alibaba-inc.com>)
Responses Re: pg_rewind fails with in-place tablespace
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 09:31:35PM +0800, 赵锐(惜元) wrote:
>  Recently I encountered an issue: pg_rewind fails when dealing with
>  in-place tablespace. The problem seems to be that pg_rewind is
>  treating in-place tablespace as symbolic link, while in fact it
>  should be treated as directory.
>  Here is the output of pg_rewind:
> pg_rewind: error: file "pg_tblspc/16385" is of different type in
> source and target
>  To help reproduce the failure, I have attached a tap test. And I am
>  pleased to say that I have also identified a solution for this
>  problem, which I have included in the patch.
>  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Issue reproduced here, and agreed that we'd better do something about
that.  I am not sure if your patch is right for the job though, but
I'll try to study that a bit more.
--
Michael

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