Re: Confusing error message with too-large file in pg_basebackup

On 11/20/2015 12:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Actually ... why don't we get rid of the limit?  wikipedia's entry on
> tar format says


We still shouldn't be dumping core files as part of a pg_basebackup...
but then, why was the core file even IN the $PGDATA directory, shouldn't
it have been in some other dir, like the postgres daemon user's $HOME ?

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