On 18 September 2017 at 05:50, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed that we're returning the underlying values for
> pg_control_recovery() without any checks:
> postgres[14388][1]=# SELECT * FROM pg_control_recovery();
>
┌──────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬──────────────────┬────────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
> │ min_recovery_end_lsn │ min_recovery_end_timeline │ backup_start_lsn │ backup_end_lsn │
end_of_backup_record_required│
>
├──────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────────────┼────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
> │ 0/0 │ 0 │ 0/0 │ 0/0 │ f
│
>
└──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴──────────────────┴────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
> (1 row)
Yes, that would have made sense for these to be NULL
> postgres[14388][1]=# SELECT pg_is_in_recovery();
> ┌───────────────────┐
> │ pg_is_in_recovery │
> ├───────────────────┤
> │ f │
> └───────────────────┘
> (1 row)
But not this, since it is a boolean and the answer is known.
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