On 2/2/18 14:40, Ray Stell wrote: > I have a fairly busy primary that I put a symlink in to move pg_xlog > over to another I/O subsystem. I was going to build a standby with > pg_basebackup running the command from the standby host. I thought > maybe I could put the symlink in on the new standby, but no go: > "pg_basebackup: directory "/database/test.basebackup/" exists but is not > empty" as documented. Is the only way to do this to "fix" it up after > the restore? I want to use the "-x" option in order to get the WAL > during the backup. Just curious, my guess is I'll have to build the > stby from a intermediate file. TIA. pg_basebackup has a --waldir or --xlogdir (depending on version) option for this, analogous to initdb. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
