Re: Recovery bug

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>> > Do users have any expectation that they can restore a backup without
>> > using recovery.conf by merely having the WAL segments in pg_xlog?
>>
>> I would expect that to work.

What's the use case?

> If that's the expectation, I believe my original fix has less impact.
> It's essentially a sanity check to make sure that the first segment
> needed is available before proceeding.

If that's really useful for some cases, I agree with your fix.

Regards,

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