Tom Lane wrote: > (FWIW, my recollection of the original design intention for > pg_controldata was that it was meant as a troubleshooting tool if the > database wouldn't start up. I'm somewhat bemused to hear that people > are trying to use it as part of production scripts. It wasn't meant to > produce machine-readable output, much less to give values that you could > rely on with respect to a running server.)
pg_migrator reads/parses the output of pg_controldata for cluster compatibility checking and for setting counters. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
