Re: Point in Time Recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Point in Time Recovery
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Msg-id 200407291703.i6TH32J14851@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Point in Time Recovery  (Mark Kirkwood <markir@coretech.co.nz>)
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Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I was wondering about this point - might it not be just as reasonable 
> for the copied file to *be* an exact image of pg_control?  Then a very 
> simple variant of pg_controldata (or maybe even just adding switches to 
> pg_controldata itself) would enable the relevant info to be extracted

We didn't do that so admins could easily read the file contents.

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