On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 02:07:43PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 03:37:09PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> >> (Another related tool is clearxlogtail which zeroes areas from
> >> WAL files when they are empty because of an early switch due to
> >> archive timeout).
> >
> > Should we document that?
>
> Our shop has been using that since before pglesslog existed, and it
> has continued to work across many major releases with no change to
> source code because it doesn't get down to the level of looking at
> the xlog records themselves, just the segment and page-level
> structures. I should probably put packaging that up as a proper
> extension and posting it to PGXN as another thing on the list of
> things I'll do when I stumble over that pot of round tuits at the
> end of the rainbow. Right now the source is on pgfoundry. If
> anybody wants to do anything with it before I find time, feel free.
I was going to add a mention of this to our docs, but it seems there are
no released files for the project:
http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000308
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