Re: Making pg_rewind faster

Hi John,

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM John H <johnhyvr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> > 3) maybe we can improve the error messages for the
> > last 2 checks in tap test, that because of this
> > reason hence proven that the copy from source to
> > target has been done.
>
> What are you thinking of? Something like the below?
>
> + "Expected WAL segment $corrupt_wal_seg to have been modified
> due to rewind");
> + "Expected WAL segment $corrupt_wal_seg to have been synced
> from source to target after rewind");
>

maybe something like this
+ "Expected WAL segment $corrupt_wal_seg to have later mtime
on target than source after rewind as it was copied");
+ "Expected WAL segment $corrupt_wal_seg file sizes to be same
between target and source after rewind as it was copied");

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Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
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