From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: "using previous checkpoint record at" maybe not the greatest idea? |
Date: | 2016-02-04 23:49:39 |
Message-ID: | 56B3E393.8080302@BlueTreble.com |
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On 2/4/16 5:09 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> What the 2nd para in the documentation is saying is something different:
> it is talking about reading all the pg_xlog files (in reverse order),
> which is not pg_control, and see what checkpoint records are there, then
> figure out which one to use.
>
>
> Yes, I inferred something that obviously isn't true - that the system
> doesn't go hunting for a valid checkpoint to begin recovery from. While
> it does not do so in the case of a corrupted pg_control file I further
> assumed it never did. That would be because the documentation doesn't
> make the point of stating that two checkpoint positions exist and that
> PostgreSQL will try the second one if the first one proves unusable.
> Given the topic of this thread that omission makes the documentation
> out-of-date. Maybe its covered elsewhere but since this section
> addresses locating a starting point I would expect any such description
> to be here as well.
Yeah, I think we should fix the docs. Especially since I imagine that if
you're reading that part of the docs you're probably having a really bad
day, and bad info won't help you...
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com
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