I wrote:
However, we should probably make the behaviour switchable. If the archive_command populating the archive_directory were rsync, for example, this problem should not occur, because it copies to a temp file, and then renames it, so we should never see an incomplete file even though rsync also apparently preallocates space.
Another and probably simpler thing to try would be the GnuWin32 version of cp. If we can verify that it behaves itself, we should probably recommend it for use in archive_command instead of the native Windows copy.
I'm still not sure how to construct a test, though. cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
