On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com > wrote:
> What exactly was wrong with pg_basebackup -R, without > recovery_config_directory? > pg_basebackup -R generates automatically recovery.conf inside data folder, so if recovery_config_directory is specified the slave startup will fail. The same problem exists also with the case where a tarball is generated for base backup. Such limitations should be specified in the docs at least. -- Michael