Re: more corruption - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: more corruption
Date
Msg-id 200007102238.SAA04618@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: more corruption  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Given Vadim's plans for WAL and smgr changes, at least the next two
> version updates likely won't be updatable with pg_upgrade anyway.
> However, we've seen a couple of times recently when pg_upgrade was
> useful as a recovery tool for system-table corruption, and that's why
> I'm unhappy about the prospect of just discarding it...

Agreed.  I can see some cases where several types of recovery will be
harder in the new system.

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