Re: pg_xlog - files are guaranteed to be sequentialynamed? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: pg_xlog - files are guaranteed to be sequentialynamed?
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Msg-id 1181816696.5776.14.camel@silverbirch.site
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In response to Re: pg_xlog - files are guaranteed to be sequentialy named?  (Frank Wittig <fw@weisshuhn.de>)
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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:39 +0200, Frank Wittig wrote:
> But I would say one can
> rely on serial file names to increase steadily.

The whole of the PostgreSQL recovery system relies upon that, so yes we
can use that externally from the database also.

There's a patch to 8.3 for the restore_command to be passed a %r
parameter so you don't need to grovel in the control file.

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  Simon Riggs
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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