Re: Online backups are failing

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:21 -0500, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote:

> First we saw this problem on our postgres 8.2.7 database where we had
> the "stats_block_level" parameter turned on in postgresql.conf file.
> After I turned off stats_block_level parameter, our backups did not
> fail.

Seems like the stats files are changing while being copied.

I'd suggest excluding global/pgstat* from the backup.

Stats are reset at recovery anyway, so you've lost nothing.

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