On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Alexander Korotkov
<a.korot...@postgrespro.ru> wrote:
> attached patch allows pg_rewind to work when target timeline was switched.
> Actually, this patch fixes TODO from pg_rewind comments.
>
> /*
> * Trace the history backwards, until we hit the target timeline.
> *
> * TODO: This assumes that there are no timeline switches on the target
> * cluster after the fork.
> */
>
> This patch allows pg_rewind to handle data directory synchronization is much
> more general way. For instance, user can return promoted standby to old
> master.
Yes. That would be useful.
> In this patch target timeline history is exposed as global variable. Index
> in target timeline history is used in function interfaces instead of
> specifying TLI directly. Thus, SimpleXLogPageRead() can easily start reading
> XLOGs from next timeline when current timeline ends.
The implementation looks rather neat by having a first look at it, but
the attached patch fails to compile:
pg_rewind.c:488:4: error: use of undeclared identifier 'targetEntry'
targetEntry = &targetHistory[i];
^
Nice to see as well that this has been added to the CF of September.
Regards,
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Michael
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