From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Proposed doc-patch: Identifying the Current WAL file |
Date: | 2006-04-15 16:40:11 |
Message-ID: | 18673.1145119211@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> In the first case, x2 is current, having be just switched to from x1,
> while in the second case, x1 is current. In BSD, you can use ls -ltT to
> see the seconds, but in Linux it is something different, and I am sure
> there are some operating systems that don't allow you to see the seconds
> at all. What general command-line solution can we propose for this
> process?
For a command-line solution it's probably sufficient to sort by mtime,
ie
ls -t | head -1
You'll be at worst 1 second behind reality, assuming 1-second
granularity of mtime (and assuming ls sorts by the real mtime not what
it shows you, but that's true everywhere AFAIK).
regards, tom lane
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