| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Invalid magic number in log file? |
| Date: | 2007-05-16 17:54:46 |
| Message-ID: | 5312.1179338086@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Maybe the thing to do here is to disallow running a postmaster when the
> data dir is using a different WAL magic (forcing you to pg_resetxlog or
> initdb).
Which, curiously enough, is exactly what it does ...
I'm not particularly concerned with the user-friendliness of the error
message, since this case would never arise for normal users (the
PG_VERSION check would fire first in any cross-version compatibility
situation). It only matters for hackers tracking CVS HEAD.
regards, tom lane
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