Re: Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file
Date: 2006-04-15 17:00:35
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0604150957290.9581@discord.dyndns.org
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> For a command-line solution it's probably sufficient to sort by mtime,
> ie
> ls -t | head -1

A while back when I was trying to work this out on the admin list, I believe
we came up with the following:

ls -tp /pg_xlog/ | grep -v "backup\|/" | head -1

which seems to work fairly well. Looks like that thread is here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-10/msg00173.php

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