Re: Misleading/inaccurate error message from pg_basebackup

Re: Casey
> I thought that I addressed your inquiries as best as I was able.  Can you please clarify any remaining questions?

What did you do to make you believe that you had to "mkdir" in the
first place?

Also, please keep it on the list.

> > On Jan 24, 2024, at 6:48 AM, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Re: Casey Shobe
> >> Below is pasted my initial message, which gives more context and detail.  Let me know if anything is still inclear
afterthis.  The context is that I use Patroni to run a multi-node cluster, and WAL-G creates a hidden directory within
thewal directory which I did not initially notice when I otherwise emptied it before reinitializing a node after
replacingdisk for the data volume.  This led to a fair bit of time wasted looking for the wrong problem:
 
> > 
> > I did reply to your initially message and all the questions are still
> > open.
> > 
> > Christoph

Christoph