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Report WAL flush, not insert, position in replication IDENTIFY_SYSTEM
authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:18:14 +0000 (11:18 +0200)
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:32:37 +0000 (11:32 +0200)
commit2af568c6b50293bedb10d4ebb8dca9fe13f435c5
tree6de25d98d69ff21894beb4ea11d47e048fe9967a
parenteae798ae1d98f8f62cc0b93a2c6972985f070446
Report WAL flush, not insert, position in replication IDENTIFY_SYSTEM

When beginning streaming replication, the client usually issues the
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command, which used to return the current WAL insert
position. That's not suitable for the intended purpose of that field,
however. pg_receivexlog uses it to start replication from the reported
point, but if it hasn't been flushed to disk yet, it will fail. Change
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM to report the flush position instead.

Backpatch to 9.1 and above. 9.0 doesn't report any WAL position.
doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
src/backend/replication/walsender.c