David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> The nice people at VMware, where I work, have come up with a small
> patch to allow PITR to create a new timeline. This is useful in cases
> where you're using filesystem snapshots of $PGDATA which may be old.
Huh? We already start a new timeline when doing a non-crash-recovery
replay scenario.
The code looks pretty confused too, which makes it difficult to
reverse-engineer what your point is.
regards, tom lane
