"Tena Sakai" <tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This seems to contradict what we say about GNU tar? >> Is this GNU tar? What version? > Yes, it is GNU tar v1.14 FWIW, I tried this on Fedora Core 6 while running pgbench: [tgl@rh2 ~]$ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 [tgl@rh2 ~]$ tar cf t.tar $PGDATA tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /home/tgl/testversion/data/pg_xlog/000000010000000000000003: file changed as we read it [tgl@rh2 ~]$ echo $? 0 [tgl@rh2 ~]$ ISTR that the original caution was against writing scripts that assume anything being emitted to stderr must indicate a problem. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
