Re: files to ignore during pitr base backup

Jeff Frost  writes:
> I noticed recently that my PITR base backups were occassionally returning 
> non-zero, so I turned up the verbosity on rsync and it appears that 
> occassionally a file vanishes out from under rsync while it's doing the base 
> backup:
> ...
> Would it be ok to just exclude the pg_internal.init file since it disappeared
> during the base backup?

It's safe to exclude those, but those are hardly the only files that
might "disappear" in a live database.  It'd be better to use a dump
tool that's less picky about the source data changing under it.  We've
had similar reports about GNU tar being too smart for this purpose :-(

			regards, tom lane