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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Don't archive bogus recycled or preallocated files after timelin
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Msg-id 2843.1429021926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Don't archive bogus recycled or preallocated files after timelin  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Don't archive bogus recycled or preallocated files after timelin  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 04/14/2015 02:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Wait a minute.  Didn't you just break PITR scenarios?  The *entire point*
>> of the multiple-timeline mechanism is that you can start a new WAL history
>> from a point in the past without destroying WAL history after that point
>> on the old timeline.

> It deletes the files belonging to other timelines from pg_xlog only. The
> WAL archive is not touched.

How do we know those files are in the WAL archive?

            regards, tom lane

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