Re: pg_basebackup failing

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Sameer Kumar <sameer.kumar@ashnik.com> wrote:

The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file
exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single tar member, which
is as well the norm for tar.

I thought PostgreSQL would break the file if it grows beyond 1GB (1GB is segment size which one can modify while compiling). Am I missing something or have I got it totally wrong?

No, you are missing nothing. Thanks for reminding :) (This is settable with ./configure --with-segsize)
So the build has been done with some uncommon option.

Regards,

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Michael