Re: pgsql: WAL must log CREATE and DROP DATABASE operations

Added to TODO:

* Allow WAL replay of CREATE TABLESPACE to work when the directory
  structure on the recovery computer is different from the original


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Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> WAL must log CREATE and DROP DATABASE operations *without* using any
> explicit paths, so that the log can be replayed in a data directory
> with a different absolute path than the original had.  To avoid forcing
> initdb in the 8.0 branch, continue to accept the old WAL log record
> types; they will never again be generated however, and the code can be
> dropped after the next forced initdb.  Per report from Oleg Bartunov.
> We still need to think about what it really means to WAL-log CREATE
> TABLESPACE commands: we more or less have to put the absolute path
> into those, but how to replay in a different context??
>
> Tags:
> ----
> REL8_0_STABLE
>
> Modified Files:
> --------------
>     pgsql/src/backend/commands:
>         dbcommands.c (r1.148.4.1 -> r1.148.4.2)
>
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c.diff?r1=1.148.4.1&r2=1.148.4.2)
>     pgsql/src/include/commands:
>         dbcommands.h (r1.36 -> r1.36.4.1)
>         (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/commands/dbcommands.h.diff?r1=1.36&r2=1.36.4.1)
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