On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Let's imagine we're taking filesystem snapshots each day by whatever
>> means. We're also archiving xlogs, but only have space for 48 hours'
>> worth. Now we want to recover to 3 days ago, but there are no WALs
>> from that time, so we do a crash recovery from the filesystem
>> snapshot. Doing continuous archiving from this conflicts with the
>> existing WALs, which we solve by creating a new timeline.
>
> How is this different from just changing the recovery_command?
*scratches head*
How is it the same?
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