Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> So if you need to enter standalone mode, you'll have to start
> postmaster, wait for replay to finish, stop it and restart standalone.
Yeah, that's the case at the moment.
> Would this be a problem when you need standalone mode in an emergency,
> for example when the database won't start due to Xid wraparound?
If it won't run through StartupXLOG under the postmaster, it's not going
to do so standalone either.
regards, tom lane