Re: Enforcing that all WAL has been replayed after restoring from backup

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 18:07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> On 09.08.2011 18:20, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> How about making the new backup_label field optional?  If absent, assume
>>> current behavior.
>
>> That's how I actually did it in the patch. However, the problem wrt.
>> requiring initdb is not the new field in backup_label, it's the new
>> field in the control file.
>
> Yeah.  I think it's too late to be fooling with pg_control for 9.1.
> Just fix it in HEAD.

Should we add a note to the documentation of pg_basebackup in 9.1
telling people to take care about the failure case? Or add a signal
handler in the pg_basebackup client emitting a warning about it?

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