Re: pg_xlog - files are guaranteed to be sequentialynamed?

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Frank Wittig" <fw(at)weisshuhn(dot)de>
Cc: "Johannes Konert" <jkonert(at)t3go(dot)de>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_xlog - files are guaranteed to be sequentialynamed?
Date: 2007-06-14 10:24:56
Message-ID: 1181816696.5776.14.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:39 +0200, Frank Wittig wrote:
> But I would say one can
> rely on serial file names to increase steadily.

The whole of the PostgreSQL recovery system relies upon that, so yes we
can use that externally from the database also.

There's a patch to 8.3 for the restore_command to be passed a %r
parameter so you don't need to grovel in the control file.

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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