Re: [PATCH] add relation and block-level filtering to pg_waldump

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 at 20:48, David Christensen <david.christensen@crunchydata.com> wrote:
>> Cool.  I think we can report an error instead of reading wal files,
>> if the tablespace, database, or relation is invalid.  Does there any
>> WAL record that has invalid tablespace, database, or relation OID?
>
> The only sort of validity check we could do here is range checking for the underlying data types
> (which we certainly could/should add if it’s known to never be valid for the underlying types);

The invalid OID I said here is such as negative number and zero, for those
parameters, we do not need to read the WAL files, since it always invalid.

> non-existence of objects is a no-go, since that depends purely on the WAL range you are
> looking at and you’d have to, you know, scan it to see if it existed before marking as invalid. :)
>

Agreed.

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