Re: WAL-related tools and .paritial WAL file

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Fujii Masao wrote:
>>> 3) Something not caused by this patch that I just noticed... But
>>> pg_resetxlog does not remove .backup files in pg_xlog. Shouldn't they
>>> get moved away as well?
>>
>> pg_resetxlog doesn't remove also .history file in pg_xlog. Those remaining
>> .backup and .history files are harmless after pg_resetxlog is executed.
>> So I don't think that it's required to remove them. Of course we can do that,
>> but some existing applications might depend on the current behavior...
>> So unless there is strong reason to do that, I'd like to let it as it is.
>
> Well, I was just surprised to not see them wiped out. Let's not change
> the behavior then that exists for ages. The rest of the patch looks
> fine to me (I would add dots at the end of sentences in comment
> blocks, but that's a detail). The new macros really make the code
> easier to read and understand!

Yep!

Applied the patch. Thanks!

Regards,

-- 
Fujii Masao