On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > 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. Indeed the code got quite cleaner with the new WAL API. Btw, gitignore has many unnecessary entries. -- Michael
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