Re: WAL format changes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WAL format changes
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Msg-id 8405.1340675505@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: WAL format changes  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> So I think we should change pg_resetxlog -l option to take a WAL file 
> name as argument, and fix pg_upgrade accordingly.

Seems reasonable I guess.  It's really specifying a starting WAL
location, but only to file granularity, so treating the argument as a
file name is sort of a type cheat but seems convenient.

If we do it that way, we'd better validate that the argument is a legal
WAL file name, so as to catch any cases where somebody tries to do it
old-style.

BTW, does pg_resetxlog's logic for setting the default -l value (from
scanning pg_xlog to find the largest existing file name) still work?
        regards, tom lane


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