From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
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To: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | pg_rewind in contrib |
Date: | 2014-12-12 14:13:13 |
Message-ID: | 548AF7F9.3090200@vmware.com |
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Hi,
I'd like to include pg_rewind in contrib. I originally wrote it as an
external project so that I could quickly get it working with the
existing versions, and because I didn't feel it was quite ready for
production use yet. Now, with the WAL format changes in master, it is a
lot more maintainable than before. Many bugs have been fixed since the
first prototypes, and I think it's fairly robust now.
I propose that we include pg_rewind in contrib/ now. Attached is a patch
for that. It just includes the latest sources from the current pg_rewind
repository at https://github.com/vmware/pg_rewind. It is released under
the PostgreSQL license.
For those who are not familiar with pg_rewind, it's a tool that allows
repurposing an old master server as a new standby server, after
promotion, even if the old master was not shut down cleanly. That's a
very often requested feature.
- Heikki
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pg_rewind-contrib.patch | text/x-diff | 100.7 KB |
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