Re: Age of the WAL?

Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com> writes:
> On Mar 12, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Transaction commit and abort records carry timestamps, so you could
>> figure this out with something like pg_xlogdump.  I don't know of any
>> canned solution though.

> Anyway, will pg_xlogdump work with any previous versions of Postgres or will it be only 9.3+?

The version recently added to contrib is only meant to work with the
current server release, AFAIK.  However, it's derived from older
standalone programs that are out there somewhere --- did you look around
on pgfoundry?

            regards, tom lane