Re: WAL replay logic (was Re: [PERFORM] Mount options for

Uh, not sure.  Does it guard against corrupt WAL records?

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Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > 	* Allow WAL information to recover corrupted pg_controldata
> >...
> > >      Using pg_control to get the checkpoint position speeds up the
> > >      recovery process, but to handle possible corruption of pg_control,
> > >      we should actually implement the reading of existing log segments
> > >      in reverse order -- newest to oldest -- in order to find the last
> > >      checkpoint. This has not been implemented, yet.
> 
> So if you do this, do you still need to store that information in
> pg_control at all?
> 
> cjs
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