Re: more corruption

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: more corruption
Date: 2000-07-10 22:38:35
Message-ID: 200007102238.SAA04618@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Given Vadim's plans for WAL and smgr changes, at least the next two
> version updates likely won't be updatable with pg_upgrade anyway.
> However, we've seen a couple of times recently when pg_upgrade was
> useful as a recovery tool for system-table corruption, and that's why
> I'm unhappy about the prospect of just discarding it...

Agreed. I can see some cases where several types of recovery will be
harder in the new system.

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