Re: Control File

Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
> DBA takes another coffee and finally started the database which... just came
> up! Few minutes latter lot off errors being displayed. What is that???
> /mnt/array2 (50% of datafiles and tablespaces were there) was still umounted
> and even so PostgreSQL came up. -- PostgreSQL stopped, /mnt/array2 mounted,
> started and... - happy end!
> 
> 
> After that night, I started to ask myself if PostgreSQL should not have a
> control file to check if expected datafiles are where they should be and
> JUST warn about missing ones?

I don't think this happens frequently enough to add code for it.

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