Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Right, because the catalog contents didn't change. Seems to me you'd
>> better teach the installers to look at PG_CONTROL_VERSION too.
> Hmm, is there anything else that might need to be checked?
Offhand I can think of three internal version-like numbers:
CATALOG_VERSION_NO --- bump if initial system catalog contents would be
inconsistent with backend code
PG_CONTROL_VERSION --- bump when contents of pg_control change
XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC --- bump on incompatible change in WAL contents
regards, tom lane
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