Re: Unable to build pg_rewind

On 25/02/15 12:47, Michael Paquier wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Mark Kirkwood
> <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz <mailto:mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>>
> wrote:
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>     On 25/02/15 11:06, Ratay, Steve wrote:
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>         I have checked out the pg_rewind code from
>         https://github.com/vmware/pg_rewind.git on the master branch and
>         am using PostgreSQL 9.4.1 source code to build against.  When I
>         try to compile pg_rewind, I am getting the following errors.
>         How can I resolve these problems?
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>     It looks like master of pg_rewind expects to be built against
>     Postgres 9.5. Try checking out the REL9_4_STABLE branch.
>
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>   This branching model makes management of the code easier because
> WAL-related APIs and WAL format can change a lot between major releases
> (and also because in this case it would have made the code less readable
> using blocks based on PG_VERSION_NUM for not that much result).
>

Absolutely - and you've used the same branch names as the postgresql git 
repo does - so really nice and easy to match things up!

Cheers

Mark