Re: xlogdump fixups and WAL log question. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Hi, Simon,

Simon Riggs wrote:

> 1. Provide a filter that can be easily used by archive_command to remove
> full page writes from WAL files. This would require us to disable the
> file size test when we begin recovery on a new WAL files, plus would
> need to redesign initial location of the checkpoint record since we
> could no longer rely on the XLogRecPtr being a byte offset within the
> file.

pg_WAL_filter could "correct" the XLogRecPtr and file sizes during the
filter run.

HTH,
Markus

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