Re: Set new system identifier using pg_resetxlog

On August 25, 2014 9:45:50 PM CEST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
>> In summary, I think we want this feature in some form, but we'll
>somehow 
>> need to be make the distinction to the dangerous pg_resetxlog usage.
>It 
>> might be best, after all, to make this a separate utility, 
>> pg_resetsystemid.
>
>That sounds fairly reasonable given your point about not wanting people
>to
>confuse this with the can-eat-your-data aspects of pg_resetxlog. 
>(OTOH,
>won't this result in a lot of code duplication?  We'd still need to
>erase
>and refill the WAL area.)

Let's move pg-controldata, resetxlog, resetsysid into a common src/bin directory. Then we can unify the relevant code
betweenall three.
 

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