Re: BUG #6528: pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "stuart(dot)bishop" <stuart(dot)bishop(at)canonical(dot)com>, koichi(dot)szk(at)gmail(dot)com, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #6528: pglesslog still referenced in docs, but no 9.1 support
Date: 2012-08-29 21:04:00
Message-ID: 20120829210400.GA8753@momjian.us
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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 02:07:43PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:37:09PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> >> (Another related tool is clearxlogtail which zeroes areas from
> >> WAL files when they are empty because of an early switch due to
> >> archive timeout).
> >
> > Should we document that?
>
> Our shop has been using that since before pglesslog existed, and it
> has continued to work across many major releases with no change to
> source code because it doesn't get down to the level of looking at
> the xlog records themselves, just the segment and page-level
> structures. I should probably put packaging that up as a proper
> extension and posting it to PGXN as another thing on the list of
> things I'll do when I stumble over that pot of round tuits at the
> end of the rainbow. Right now the source is on pgfoundry. If
> anybody wants to do anything with it before I find time, feel free.

I was going to add a mention of this to our docs, but it seems there are
no released files for the project:

http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000308

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