On 1/22/15 1:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
>
>> 2) Make movedb() (and possibly created(), not sure yet) use proper WAL
>> logging and log the whole copied data. I think this is the right long
>> term fix and would end up being much more reliable. But it either
>> requires some uglyness during redo (creating nonexistant database
>> directories on the fly during redo) or new wal records.
>>
>> Doable, but probably too large/invasive to backpatch.
>
> Not to mention the extra WAL traffic ...
Yeah, I don't know that we actually want #2. It's bad enough to copy an entire database locally, but to then put it's
entirecontents into WAL? Blech.
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