On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes: >> I think you misunderstand my point - I'm saying that pg_resetxlog should >> be able to force the use of older checkpoints, basically as a fallback >> to cases where the previous approach might actually have worked, not >> that it needs to work across format changes. > > That seems like a completely separate feature --- and one of dubious > value, frankly. The further back you go, the less likely it'd be > to work.
Because the less guarantees you would have to reach a consistent point with a non-corrupted instance. I think that Andres' idea here are worth debating though. Why not just spawning a new thread on the matter and summarize what you have in mind? -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
