Re: Gotchas about pg_verify_checksums

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Gotchas about pg_verify_checksums
Date: 2018-04-11 00:48:56
Message-ID: CAH2-Wzmew+B-M1rjrFSF4+LdHEGcHrrzCONYP-HhL172MxJOQg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
> Peter, the code does the right thing as it requires the instance's
> control file state to be either DB_SHUTDOWNED_IN_RECOVERY or
> DB_SHUTDOWNED. The documentation, on the contrary, implies that
> the instance just needs to be offline, which can be anything as long as
> the postmaster is stopped. That's how I understand the current
> wording.

I see. The problem is clearly the documentation, then.

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Peter Geoghegan

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