On 9/27/2010 4:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
The reason it tells you that data will be destroyed is that that could very well happen. If the system decides to put new data into what will appear to it to be an empty page, then the damaged data on disk will be overwritten, and then there's no hope of recovering anything. Like Jeff said, this is not a recovery tool. It's certainly not meant to be something that you keep turned on for any length of time, and so the possibility of repeat messages is really not a design consideration at all.
No argument with any of this, although I'm not the intended audience for these warnings -- I know what I'm doing ;) I'm not sure though if you're disagreeing with my suggestion that the documentation be improved/corrected though. Is that the case ? (if so then I will argue) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
