Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> ...While recovering, it is very straightforward to simply ignore every
> record associated with one (or more) transactions. That gives us the
> ability to recover "all apart from txnid X".
Don't even *think* of going there.
What will happen when transaction Y comes along and wants to modify or
delete a row that was inserted by X? There's no chance of staying
consistent.
regards, tom lane