On Monday 21 September 2009 14:24:07 Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > So if you need to enter standalone mode, you'll have to start > > postmaster, wait for replay to finish, stop it and restart standalone. > > Yeah, that's the case at the moment. > > > Would this be a problem when you need standalone mode in an emergency, > > for example when the database won't start due to Xid wraparound? > > If it won't run through StartupXLOG under the postmaster, it's not going > to do so standalone either. >
Hmm... istr cases where I couldn't startup regular postgres but could in stand-alone mode that had system indexes disabled...I could be misremembering that so that the postmaster would start, I just couldn't connect unless in stand-alone. In any case this does seem less than ideal, but if there aren't any better options... -- 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
