OK, sounds reasonable.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I hadn't looked at flags yet. Thomas's concern, and I think a valid
> > one, is that if we move it from contrib into the main tree, people may
> > accidentally run pg_resetxlog without understanding the issues involved.
>
> There's already an interlock to prevent you from running it against a
> live installation (it won't run if it sees a postmaster lock file).
> That should also prevent an accidental run against a crashed installation
> (presumably a lockfile will still be there). And if you run it against
> a cleanly-shut-down installation, it's harmless because you don't need
> the old xlog.
>
> I don't think we need to be so paranoid as to insist that you say
> pg_resetxlog --yes-i-read-the-manual
> before it will do anything.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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