[HACKERS] Re: pg_basebackup: could not get transaction log end position from server: FATAL: could not open file ./pg_hba.conf~: Permission denied

Andres Freund-3 wrote On 2014-05-16 18:29:25 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Andres Freund lt; andres@ gt;wrote: On 2014-05-16 18:20:35 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Joshua D. Drake lt; jd@ gt; wrote: At a

Re: [HACKERS] Re: pg_basebackup: could not get transaction log end position from server: FATAL: could not open file ./pg_hba.conf~: Permission denied

On 05/16/2014 08:11 PM, David G Johnston wrote: Can we simply backup the non-data parts of $PGDATA first then move onto the data-parts? For the files that we'd be dealing with it would be sufficiently quick to just try and fail, immediately, then check for all possible preconditions first. The