Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> But that's not what Tom is talking about, I don't think: you might
> also want a way to explicitly whack the flag in pg_control around.
> That would probably be along the lines of pg_resetxlog. I'm not sure
> how much use case there is for such a thing, but if it's needed it's
> certainly wouldn't be hard to write.
Right, but instead of having to provide such a tool, we could just
store the status as a text file. There is a pretty time-honored
tradition for that, ya know.
regards, tom lane
