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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Dmitry Koval <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Operation log for major operations
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:00:21 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 2022-Nov-21, Dmitry Koval wrote:

> Concepts.
> ---------
> * operation log is placed in the file 'global/pg_control', starting from
> position 4097 (log size is 4kB);

I think storing this in pg_control is a bad idea.  That file is
extremely critical and if you break it, you're pretty much SOL on
recovering your data.  I suggest that this should use a separate file.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"All rings of power are equal,
But some rings of power are more equal than others."
                                 (George Orwell's The Lord of the Rings)





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