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Prevent running pg_resetwal/pg_resetxlog against wrong-version data dirs.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 29 May 2017 21:08:16 +0000 (17:08 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 29 May 2017 21:08:16 +0000 (17:08 -0400)
commit98bff290747e50b53f0076d69f239a13e032c7e1
tree904c6e2405f53c4671d8479242aec780ac38ff40
parentdd1daa03bc8e49f463f2d852f7afe6506f0bb612
Prevent running pg_resetwal/pg_resetxlog against wrong-version data dirs.

pg_resetwal (formerly pg_resetxlog) doesn't insist on finding a matching
version number in pg_control, and that seems like an important thing to
preserve since recovering from corrupt pg_control is a prime reason to
need to run it.  However, that means you can try to run it against a
data directory of a different major version, which is at best useless
and at worst disastrous.  So as to provide some protection against that
type of pilot error, inspect PG_VERSION at startup and refuse to do
anything if it doesn't match.  PG_VERSION is read-only after initdb,
so it's unlikely to get corrupted, and even if it were corrupted it would
be easy to fix by hand.

This hazard has been there all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Michael Paquier, with some kibitzing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f4b8eb91-b934-8a0d-b3cc-68f06e2279d1@enterprisedb.com
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetxlog.sgml
src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c