| From: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Is the a "magic number" for WAL files |
| Date: | 2011-12-09 19:49:12 |
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On 9 December 2011 18:46, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I would like the "file" command to tell me something other than "data",
> yes even though I can tell by the name (and the directory of course).
> Hoping someone has something I can slip into /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc
> or that directory.
You mean something like this?:
/*
* Each page of XLOG file has a header like this:
*/
#define XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC 0xD068 /* can be used as WAL version indicator */
Obviously that isn't stable.
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Peter Geoghegan http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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