Re: BUG #14243: pg_basebackup failes by a STATUS_DELETE_PENDING file

Michael Paquier wrote:

> I gave this bug another try and let Windows run for some time but I
> cannot reproduce the original failure even with manual checkpointing
> and aggressive checkpoint_timeout, while truncating relations heavily
> with pgbench to enforce the deletion of relfilenodes. To all, do you
> think that having a large relfilenode file matters to trigger this
> issue?

Hmm, perhaps with a larger file the OS spends more time shredding the
file or something like that?  Perhaps there are filesystem options
involved, for instance.

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