Re: pg_xlogdump follow into the future

On 2016-07-14 13:46:23 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Currently, if you run pg_xlogdump with -f, you have to specify an end
> position in an existing file, or if you don't it will only follow until the
> end of the current file.

That's because specifying a file explicitly says that you only want to
look at that file, specifying two files that you want the range
inclusively between the two files.  -f works if you just use -s.

> I'd appreciate a review of that by someone who's done more work on the xlog
> stuff, but it seems trivial to me. Not sure I can argue it's a bugfix
> though, since the usecase simply did not work...

I'd say it's working as intended, and you want to change that
intent. That's fair, but I'd not call it a bug, and I'd say it's not
really 9.6 material.