I said: > Mmm ... maybe. Is this safe if a checkpoint is currently in progress? > Seems like you could look at RedoRecPtr and decide you are okay, but you > really are not if checkpointer has already dumped sequence' disk > buffer and will later set RedoRecPtr to a value beyond the old LSN.
Oh, wait, I take that back: the checkpointer advances RedoRecPtr *before* it starts to dump disk buffers. I'm still worried about whether we shouldn't try to simplify, rather than add complexity. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])