Ok - that is a much better way of doing it!
regards
Mark
Tom Lane wrote:
>"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at> writes:
>
>
>>If you use a readable file you will also need a feature for restore
>>(or a tool) to create an appropriate pg_control file, or are you
>>intending to still require that pg_control be the first file backed
>>up.
>>
>>
>
>No, the entire point of this exercise is to get rid of that assumption.
>You do need *a* copy of pg_control, but the only reason you'd need to
>back it up first rather than later is so that its checkpoint pointer
>points to the last checkpoint before the dump starts. Which is the
>information we want to put in the archive-label file insted.
>
>If a copy of pg_control were sufficient then I'd be all for using it as
>the archive-label file, but it's *not* sufficient because you also need
>the ending WAL offset. So we need a different file layout in any case,
>and we may as well take some pity on the poor DBA and make the file
>easily human-readable.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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