On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 16:32 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Simon Riggs" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:21 -0700, Jason L. Buberel wrote: > >> I downloaded the latest xlogdump source, and built/installed it against > >> my 8.2.4 source tree. When I execute it however, I am informed that all > >> of my WAL files (either the 'active' copies in pg_xlog or the 'archived' > >> copies in my /pgdata/archive_logs dir) appear to be malformed: > >> Bogus page magic number D05E at offset 0 > > > For now, remove these lines from xlogdump.c, l.82-86 > > if (((XLogPageHeader) pageBuffer)->xlp_magic != XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC) > > I don't think that's a very good solution; the reason the magic number > changed is that some of the record formats changed. Jason needs a copy > that's actually appropriate to 8.2. That was the hack for Jason, not the longterm solution. I've said I'll work on that once other core software is done. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com