Re: recover in single-user backend fails

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> The only recovery strategy that I can think of in 8.1 is to blow away
> your WAL with pg_resetxlog, let the database come up in a damaged
> condition, and then try to extract data from it.

Would it work if he rebuilt 8.1 with a "return;" as the first line of
gist_redo() in gistxlog.c and when recovery (hopefully) completes immediately
drop any gist indexes?

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