On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 18:38 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > So you *must* replay catalog entries and recreate the original catalog
> > in exact synchronisation with reading WAL files. Recreating the catalog
> > can only be done by Postgres itself.
> 
> The startup process doesn't have a relcache, 
Yes
> so this rmgr patch is 
> nowhere near enough to enable 
You are way too smart not to overcome such a minor hurdle...
> that. If I understood correctly, the hot 
> standby patch doesn't change that either.
No it doesn't.
-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support