Re: pg_rewind in contrib

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_rewind in contrib
Date: 2015-01-15 13:27:18
Message-ID: 54B7C036.2000600@vmware.com
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On 01/15/2015 03:21 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> I must have missed this, how did you some the hint bit problem with
> pg_rewind? Last I understood you ran the risk that the server has unlogged
> hint bit updates that you wouldn't know to rewind.

There's a new GUC in 9.4, wal_log_hints, for that. It has to be turned
on for pg_rewind to work. Or data checksums must be enabled, which also
causes hint bit updates to be logged.

- Heikki

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