On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's safe to exclude those, but those are hardly the only files that
> might "disappear" in a live database. It'd be better to use a dump
> tool that's less picky about the source data changing under it. We've
> had similar reports about GNU tar being too smart for this purpose :-(
I would have thought that the pg_start_backup() function would tell the
postmasters not to take files out from under the base backup process?
In any event, if it's ok to ignore those, rsync conveniently has a specific
error code for that:
24 Partial transfer due to vanished source files
So I can just consider an exit code of 0 or 24 as both being success.
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