Обсуждение: Question about convert the binary WAL file

<table width="100%"><tr><td><p>Hi, All<p>I am new to devolopment of code, so maybe the question is quit simple.<p>I am
tryingto write a tools to convert a binary WAL file to a text file.<p>I want to use ReadRecord to get the record from
thefile and use RmgrTable[record->xl_rmid].rm_desc to interpreter the content. But the problem is that both of them
arelocal functions and I can not use them directly, should I rewrite a copy of the functions?<p>BTW. how to use the
externdefinition in the header file, for my program is put into the contrib folder, and when I try to use some extern
definitionin the xlog.h, the compiler alway complain it can not find the objects.<p>Thanks a lot<br />
Clipper</td></tr></table><p><p><p><br/><hr size="1" /><a href="http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ondanka/"
target="_blank">Savethe earth</a> 

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:31:06PM +0900, clipper tokyo wrote:
> 
> Hi, All
> 
> I am new to devolopment of code, so maybe the question is quit simple.
> 
> I am trying to write a tools to convert a binary WAL file to a text file.

I think you could start by looking at Tom Lane's xlogdump.  It's
incomplete but it is a good start.

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To: "Mohan, Ross" <RMohan@arbinet.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] question about wal and point in time recovery 
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:26:09 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>


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