Re: machine-readable pg_controldata? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: machine-readable pg_controldata?
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Msg-id 4B918DCB.6040400@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: machine-readable pg_controldata?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> (FWIW, my recollection of the original design intention for
> pg_controldata was that it was meant as a troubleshooting tool if the
> database wouldn't start up.  I'm somewhat bemused to hear that people
> are trying to use it as part of production scripts.  It wasn't meant to
> produce machine-readable output, much less to give values that you could
> rely on with respect to a running server.)

I'll have a more detailed list when I've gotten further with testing HS/SR.

--Josh Berkus


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