Re: pg_basebackup: could not get transaction log end position from server: FATAL: could not open file "./pg_hba.conf~": Permission denied

Hi,

On 2014-05-16 07:28:42 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Can we get that fixed please? It seems rather bad behavior for pg_basebackup
> to fatal out because of the permissions on a backup file of all things.
> Instead, we should do WARNING and say skipped.

Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. We'd need to have a catalog of
common unimportant fileendings and such. We surely *do* want to error
out when we fail to copy an important file.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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