Currently, if you run pg_xlogdump with -f, you have to specify an end position in an existing file, or if you don't it will only follow until the end of the current file.
That seems like an oversight - if you specify -f with no end position, it should follow "into the future" for any new files that appear. This allows us to track what's happening properly.
AFAICT the actual code tracks this just fine, but the option parsing prevents this from happening as it does not allow the end pointer to be unset. Attach patch fixes this and makes it follow "forever" if you specify -f without an end pointer.
I'd appreciate a review of that by someone who's done more work on the xlog stuff, but it seems trivial to me. Not sure I can argue it's a bugfix though, since the usecase simply did not work...
