Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:45 PM Sawada Masahiko wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, Amit Kapila wrote:
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:18 AM Sawada Masahiko wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Amit kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:29 PM Sawada Masahiko wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Amit kapila
> <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Saturday, June 15, 2013 1:19 PM Sawada Masahiko wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Amit Kapila
> <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> On Friday, June 14, 2013 2:42 PM Samrat Revagade wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>

>>> I think that we can dumping data before all WAL files deleting. All
>>> WAL files deleting is done when old master starts as new standby.

>> Can we dump data without starting server?
>Sorry I made a mistake. We can't it.

> this proposing patch need to be able to also handle such scenario in future.

I am not sure the purposed patch can handle it so easily, but I think if others also felt it important, then a method should be a
provided to user for extracting his last committed data.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.