Le 20 nov. 2015 1:34 PM, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> a
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> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
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> > Looking at the file's size is probably a better idea. As far as I know,
> > PostgreSQL doesn't create files bigger than 1GB, except for log files.
I'm
> > not sure about this but I guess pg_basebackup doesn't ship log files.
So,
> > looking at the size would work.
>
> Hmm, so we let configure --with-segsize to change the file size. The
> configure help says that the limit should be "less than your OS' limit
> on file size". We don't warn them that this could cause backup
> problems later on. Should we add a blurb about that somewhere?
>
If we do, we should already have done so because of the file size limit in
the tar format backup done with pg_dump.