On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Robert Treat <xzi...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Saturday 09 May 2009 00:20:43 Jaime Casanova wrote: >> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:43 AM, higepon <hige...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi. >> > Is the following todo item still necessary? >> > >> > Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining >> > transaction id for point-in-time recovery. >> > This is useful for checking PITR recovery. >> > >> > If so, I want to make it. >> > What is the expected output of the dump tool? >> > TransactionId, TimeLineID and ? >> >> don't know if this project ever works >> http://pgfoundry.org/projects/xlogviewer but seems like is a start (it >> was made for 8.2 so you will have to adjust for 8.3 or even better >> 8.4) > > It did work at one point. We used it for some disaster recovery work maybe a > year or so ago. We had to update it for 8.3, and remove some linuxisms to get > it to compile for Solaris. I think it might have still had issues actually > dumping data, but it did do a good job at finding corrupted xlogs. istr Theo > submitted a patch, but I think the author had abandoned it. Personally I'd > love to see it moved into postgresql proper (and get the cleaning/updating > that implies).
Would this allow functionality similar to that of LogMiner ( http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/availability/htdocs/LogMinerOverview.htm ), or is it something else entirely? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
