"Mark Steben" <msteben(at)autorevenue(dot)com> writes:
> The doc says to do an initdb and reload the data whenever you run
> pg_resetxlog. Do you concur with that even if we are only resetting the OID
> counter?
The docs are thinking of the case where you are trying to recover from
database corruption. If you just use it to change the OID counter after
a clean shutdown, I don't see a problem.
Not that it wouldn't be a good idea to take a backup first, just
in case...
regards, tom lane