On Saturday 09 May 2009 00:20:43 Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:43 AM, higepon <hige...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > Is the following todo item still necessary? > > > > Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining > > transaction id for point-in-time recovery. > > This is useful for checking PITR recovery. > > > > If so, I want to make it. > > What is the expected output of the dump tool? > > TransactionId, TimeLineID and ? > > don't know if this project ever works > http://pgfoundry.org/projects/xlogviewer but seems like is a start (it > was made for 8.2 so you will have to adjust for 8.3 or even better > 8.4) > >
It did work at one point. We used it for some disaster recovery work maybe a year or so ago. We had to update it for 8.3, and remove some linuxisms to get it to compile for Solaris. I think it might have still had issues actually dumping data, but it did do a good job at finding corrupted xlogs. istr Theo submitted a patch, but I think the author had abandoned it. Personally I'd love to see it moved into postgresql proper (and get the cleaning/updating that implies). -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
