Re: pg_rewind: warn when checkpoint hasn't happened after promotion

At Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:05:47 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in 
> At Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:39:38 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote in 
> > One possible way to detect promotion reliably is to look into timeline
> > history files. It is written immediately at promotion even on
> > standbys.
> 
> The attached seems to work. It uses timeline history files to identify
> the source timeline.  With this change pg_waldump no longer need to
> wait for end-of-recovery to finish.
> 
> (It lacks doc part and test.. But I'm not sure how we can test this
> behavior.)

This is a revised version.

Revised getTimelineHistory()'s logic (refactored, and changed so that
it doesn't pick-up the wrong history files).

perform_rewind always identify endtli based on source's timeline
history.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center