On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: >> On 18 June 2011 04:13, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >>> I tested on FreeBSD 7.4 and saw a 1 error return: > >> And on a Mac (so through Darwin 10.7.0 a BSD version too): > > Yeah, see yesterday's discussion on pgsql-admin. I think the behavior > with the error return may be a BSD-ism. In any case, GNU cp does *not* > do what we want, and that accounts for a sufficiently large fraction of > machines in the field that I think it's just unsafe to suggest using > "cp -i" so prominently. There are too many people who'll just copy and > paste the first example provided, especially if the warning to test it > is buried several paragraphs later.
Anyway, you seem to have forgotten to fix the example of archive_command in "24.3.5.1. Standalone Hot Backups". archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/pgsql/backup_in_progress || cp -i %p /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f < /dev/null' Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers