On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:21 -0500, Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 wrote: > First we saw this problem on our postgres 8.2.7 database where we had > the "stats_block_level" parameter turned on in postgresql.conf file. > After I turned off stats_block_level parameter, our backups did not > fail. Seems like the stats files are changing while being copied. I'd suggest excluding global/pgstat* from the backup. Stats are reset at recovery anyway, so you've lost nothing. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin