Re: Point in Time Recovery

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> I was wondering about this point - might it not be just as reasonable 
> for the copied file to *be* an exact image of pg_control?  Then a very 
> simple variant of pg_controldata (or maybe even just adding switches to 
> pg_controldata itself) would enable the relevant info to be extracted

We didn't do that so admins could easily read the file contents.

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