Re: AW: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of-disk-sp ace

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Vadim Mikheev <vadim4o(at)email(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AW: WAL does not recover gracefully from out-of-disk-sp ace
Date: 2001-02-26 17:22:27
Message-ID: 200102261722.MAA28781@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > Regardless of whether this particular behavior is fixable, this brings
> > up something that I think we *must* do before 7.1 release: create a
> > utility that blows away a corrupted logfile to allow the system to
> > restart with whatever is in the datafiles. Otherwise, there is no
> > recovery technique for WAL restart failures, short of initdb and
> > restore from last backup. I'd rather be able to get at data of
> > questionable up-to-dateness than not have any chance of recovery
> > at all.
>
Update OPEN ITEMS list:

Source Code Changes
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Allow recovery from corrupted WAL file
Finalize commit_delay value

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