Re: Proposal: manipulating pg_control file from Perl

Hi Christoph,

> Re: Aleksander Alekseev
> > 1) Provide a tool written in C that allows changing pg_control, e.g.
> > `pg_writecontoldata` or maybe a flat like `pg_controldata -w`.
>
> I thought we already had pg_resetwal for that.

That's a good point.

In the case I referred to [1] however I wanted to manipulate more
fields than pg_resetwal currently allows, e.g. catalog version -
which, as Tom pointed out, is a controversial thing to do in a TAP
test.

Do you think pg_resetwall should be able to do more than it currently
does, or merely pointing out that we already have a tool for editing
pg_control file?

73s de Alex, R2AUK

[1]: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOy7fUW9MuNeOWor3cSFnQg9tgz%3DmjXHDb94GORtM_Eyg%40mail.gmail.com