On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> I just applied a doc patch for pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp, and the
> text now says:
>
> <entry>Get timestamp of last transaction replayed during recovery.
> This is the time at which the commit or abort WAL record for that
> transaction was generated on the primary.
> If no transactions have been replayed during recovery, this function
> returns NULL. Otherwise, if recovery is still in progress this will
> increase monotonically. If recovery has completed then this value will
> remain static at the value of the last transaction applied during that
> recovery. When the server has been started normally without recovery
> the function returns NULL.
>
> Is this really the last commit/abort record or the last WAL record?
> What should it be? Is the name of this function correct? Do we care
> only about commit/abort records? Why?
Commit and abort records have a timestamp. Other WAL records don't.
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