Re: Confusing error message with too-large file in pg_basebackup

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> writes:
>> On 11/20/2015 2:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It'd be reasonable to skip 'em if we can identify 'em reliably.  I'm
>>> not sure how reliably we can do that though.
>
>> aren't they nearly always named 'core' ?
>
> No.  Modern systems more often call them something like 'core.<pid>'.
> What really makes it messy is that the name is user-configurable on
> most Linux kernels, see /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.
>
> We could probably get away with excluding anything that matches "*core*",
> but it wouldn't be bulletproof.

It does not look like a good idea to me. I have no doubts that there
are deployments including configuration files with such abbreviations
in PGDATA.
--
Michael