X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C75D7788 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:23:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65860-02 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:23:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEE2D7787 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:23:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 8so317057nzo for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:23:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HQcA5Jo0dDnS+9b9R4VlVDQQTQqYl0HegQPZTsiekCoC88rWq6R0F4p2teGys9SF+mxo2D81eyPbKmuEKR+LiW/zYwTRPSZiHJMA7westJlOdM+6mDFOBD1o49sYqa0/DwlDZ5QK6YUyH/OV/9zHCHXBJSEb2WLLIijW1qPjjyw= Received: by 10.37.15.27 with SMTP id s27mr235811nzi; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.74.7 with HTTP; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <674d1f8a050826052331ab7893@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:53:41 +0530 From: Gourish Singbal To: pgsql-admin Subject: Need Help Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.081 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.057, RCVD_BY_IP=0.024] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200508/349 X-Sequence-Number: 18668 Hi all, I was going through pg_resetxlog manual page. and found the following line confusing. "For example, if 000000FF0000003A is the largest entry in pg_xlog, -l 0xFF,0x3B will work. " with respect to calculating the -l value for pg_resetxlog . please could someone explain this calculation in simple terms. --=20 Best, Gourish Singbal