Added to TODO:
* Allow WAL information to recover corrupted pg_controldata
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Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Is there a TODO here, like "Allow recovery from corrupt pg_control via
> > WAL"?
>
> Isn't that already in section 12.2.1 of the documentation?
>
> Using pg_control to get the checkpoint position speeds up the
> recovery process, but to handle possible corruption of pg_control,
> we should actually implement the reading of existing log segments
> in reverse order -- newest to oldest -- in order to find the last
> checkpoint. This has not been implemented, yet.
>
> cjs
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