Re: Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Christoph Berg
Subject Re: Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup
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Msg-id ZbDWcN4YzLDBf4O2@msg.df7cb.de
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In response to Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup  (c@osss.net)
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Re: c@osss.net
> pg_basebackup can throw an error which is inaccurate and misleading:
> 
> $ mkdir /var/lib/postgresql/14

Hi Casey,

what previous error/message lead you to create that directory? The
data directory should be existing before.

What does `pg_lsclusters` report?

Where is the actual data directory of that cluster?

Christoph



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