Re: Question on Wal time lines - Mailing list pgsql-general

From dabicho
Subject Re: Question on Wal time lines
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In response to Re: Question on Wal time lines  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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El may 3, 2011 5:59 p.m., "John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com> escribió:
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> On 05/03/11 3:07 PM, dabicho wrote:
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>> For restoring a database from wal files, if I omit a target on the recovery.conf file, can I make it so the database continues the time line instead of starting one?
>> Or is there a tool to pick the most recent time line from a bunch of wal files?
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>> thankyou.
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> you need to playback all the wal files from when you started the base backup.  of course, you need that base backup, too.
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I did that.
I restored the database, put the recovery file in place along with previous wal files and the last wall files, and after start up there was a new time line.
Am I missing something?
This is postgres 9.0
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