Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup failing

2014-01-15 Thread Sameer Kumar
The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single tar member, which is as well the norm for tar. I thought PostgreSQL would break the file if it grows beyond 1GB (1GB is segment size which one can modify while compiling). Am I

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup failing

2014-01-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Jan 15, 2014 12:07 PM, Sameer Kumar sameer.ku...@ashnik.com wrote: The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single tar member, which is as well the norm for tar. I thought PostgreSQL would break the file if it grows

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup failing

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Sameer Kumar sameer.ku...@ashnik.comwrote: The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single tar member, which is as well the norm for tar. I thought PostgreSQL would break the file if it

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup failing

2014-01-15 Thread Alan Nilsson
Thanks all alan On Jan 15, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Michael Paquier michael.paqu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Sameer Kumar sameer.ku...@ashnik.com wrote: The error you are seeing is triggered because this relation file exceeds MAX_TAR_MEMBER_FILELEN or 8GB for a single

Re: [GENERAL] pg_basebackup failing

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Alan Nilsson anils...@apple.com wrote: Could someone give me some insight to the following error message: [mqsql06:/Volumes/SQL_Set] _postgres% pg_basebackup --user=replicate --host=mqsql03 -xP -Fp --pgdata=pgsql 19439890/65873894 kB (29%), 1/1 tablespace