On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:50:07 -0700
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I think there's more people that agree with this use-case
> > than you seem to think.. That said, I appreciate that it's not a
> > trivial thing to support cleanly.
>
> Not trivial, no, but not major either. Really what needs to happen is
> for the timeline change record to get transmitted over the WAL stream.
>
> Hmmm. You know, I bet I could get stream-only remastering working in
> an unsafe way just by disabling the timeline checks. Time to test ...
>
Isn't that, what recovery_target_timeline in the recovery.conf already
does? It switches to the next timeline after a master migration. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/recovery-target-settings.html
for further information.
