Re: AW: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of-disk-sp ace - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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> > Regardless of whether this particular behavior is fixable, this brings
> > up something that I think we *must* do before 7.1 release: create a
> > utility that blows away a corrupted logfile to allow the system to
> > restart with whatever is in the datafiles.  Otherwise, there is no
> > recovery technique for WAL restart failures, short of initdb and
> > restore from last backup.  I'd rather be able to get at data of
> > questionable up-to-dateness than not have any chance of recovery
> > at all.
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Update OPEN ITEMS list:

Source Code Changes
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Allow recovery from corrupted WAL file
Finalize commit_delay value

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