On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

For a command-line solution it's probably sufficient to sort by mtime,
ie
        ls -t | head -1

A while back when I was trying to work this out on the admin list, I believe we came up with the following:

ls -tp /pg_xlog/ | grep -v "backup\|/" | head -1

which seems to work fairly well.  Looks like that thread is here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2005-10/msg00173.php

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