Lorraine Mancuso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently running PG version 8.3.1. I am working in a test
> environment. I have a situation where the WAL file needed at startup no
> longer exists and I really don't care about it,
This is never true -- if you lose a WAL file, there is potential
corruption in the system catalogs. So you always care about it.
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