Re: Enforcing that all WAL has been replayed after restoring from backup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On 09.08.2011 18:20, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> How about making the new backup_label field optional?  If absent, assume
>> current behavior.

> That's how I actually did it in the patch. However, the problem wrt. 
> requiring initdb is not the new field in backup_label, it's the new 
> field in the control file.

Yeah.  I think it's too late to be fooling with pg_control for 9.1.
Just fix it in HEAD.
        regards, tom lane