On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 24 May 2016 at 09:12, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Today somebody has pointed me out that it could be interesting to be >> able to recovery up to a given LSN position. One argument behind that >> was to allow a maximum of things to recover up to the point where a >> relation block got corrupted by a specific record because of a broken >> segment. So that would be simply having recovery_target_lsn in >> recovery.conf similar to what we have now. >> Thoughts? >> > > Sounds useful, if somewhat niche. I've needed that in the past, and just > zeroed the WAL segment after the end of the target record. Not super > user-friendly.
Yeah, that's really something that covers only a narrow case, though if we don't have it when we need it we're limited to some hacks. Perhaps people who have the advanced level to use such a thing have the level to use hacks anyway.. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
