On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:16:53PM -0600, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 01:43:11PM -0800, Andres Freund wrote: > > a significant number of times during investigations of bugs I wondered > > whether running the cluster with various settings, or various tools > > could've caused the issue at hand. Therefore I'd like to propose adding > > a 'tainted' field to pg_control, that contains some of the "history" of > > the cluster. Individual bits inside that field that I can think of right > > now are: > > - pg_resetxlog was used non-passively on cluster > > - ran with fsync=off > > - ran with full_page_writes=off > > - pg_upgrade was used
+ cluster was downgraded (between minor releases) Dregging up a years old thread since I thought that was worth adding.. -- Justin