Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove secondary checkpoint - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove secondary checkpoint
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Msg-id 24422.1510083780@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove secondary checkpoint  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I think you misunderstand my point - I'm saying that pg_resetxlog should
> be able to force the use of older checkpoints, basically as a fallback
> to cases where the previous approach might actually have worked, not
> that it needs to work across format changes.

That seems like a completely separate feature --- and one of dubious
value, frankly.  The further back you go, the less likely it'd be
to work.
        regards, tom lane


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