* Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> [090109 12:22]:
> > Yeah: the archiver process doesn't have that information available.
> Am I being really dim here - why isn't the first record in the WAL file
> a fixed-length record containing e.g. txid_start, time_start, txid_end,
> time_end, length? Write it once when you start using the file and once
> when it's finished.
It would break the WAL "write-block/sync-block" forward only progress of
the xlog, which avoids the whole torn-page problem that the heap has.
a.
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