Re: pg_rewind in contrib

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas@vmware.com> wrote:
> I'd like to include pg_rewind in contrib. I originally wrote it as an
> external project so that I could quickly get it working with the existing
> versions, and because I didn't feel it was quite ready for production use
> yet. Now, with the WAL format changes in master, it is a lot more
> maintainable than before. Many bugs have been fixed since the first
> prototypes, and I think it's fairly robust now.
>
> I propose that we include pg_rewind in contrib/ now. Attached is a patch for
> that. It just includes the latest sources from the current pg_rewind
> repository at https://github.com/vmware/pg_rewind. It is released under the
> PostgreSQL license.
>
> For those who are not familiar with pg_rewind, it's a tool that allows
> repurposing an old master server as a new standby server, after promotion,
> even if the old master was not shut down cleanly. That's a very often
> requested feature.
Indeed the code got quite cleaner with the new WAL API. Btw, gitignore
has many unnecessary entries.
-- 
Michael