Am Freitag, 24. August 2007 03:58 schrieb Tom Lane: > "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. The relevant NEWS entry from GNU tar 1.16 is: """ * After creating an archive, tar exits with code 1 if some files were changed while being read. Previous versions exited with code 2 (fatal error), and only if some files were truncated while being archived. """ -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
