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

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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