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Re: pg_resetwal is broken if run from v10 against older version of PG data directory

Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-05-30T03:46:30Z
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On 30 May 2017 at 00:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> I think it's just horribly dangerous to run any version of
> pg_resetxlog/pg_resetwal

You can pretty much stop there ;)

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Commits

  1. Prevent running pg_resetwal/pg_resetxlog against wrong-version data dirs.

  2. Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal".