"scott.marlowe" wrote: > [...] > But, I have a few more questions about the signature file solution. Is > the signature file going to be updated by date or something everytime the > database is started up and shut down? If not, then it's quite possible > that someone could copy the pg_xlog dir somewhere, run it for a while, > then they change it back to the base pg_xlog will the database know that > those xlogs are stale and not start up, or will it start up and corrupt > the database with the old xlogs? As long as there's a time stamp in both > places it should work fine.
Good question. Actually, I think it'd be a perfect place and use for a copy of the controlfile. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] # ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
