On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> So we need to prevent this, not try to make it work. I don't think
> we can insist on a version match in pg_control, because part of the
> point of pg_resetxlog/pg_resetwal is to recover if pg_control is
> unreadable. But I think we could look at PG_VERSION, which is only a
> text file. In bad corruption scenarios, if that somehow got corrupted
> (which seems unlikely since it's never written to post-initdb),
> you could fill in the correct contents by hand and then
> pg_resetxlog/pg_resetwal would run.
Agreed. Shouldn't this be back-patched? PG_CONTROL_VERSION has not
been bumped between 9.4 and 9.5. Attached is a patch for HEAD.
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Michael
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