Re: Patch for fail-back without fresh backup

On 10/24/2013 04:15 AM, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> If we do what you are suggesting, it seems like a single line patch to me.
> In XLogSaveBufferForHint(), we probably need to look at this additional GUC
> to decide whether or not to backup the block.

Wait, what?  Why are we having an additional GUC?

I'm opposed to the idea of having a GUC to enable failback.  When would
anyone using replication ever want to disable that?

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