<p dir="ltr"><br /><p dir="ltr">> I think what you're arguing is that we should see WAL records filling the<br />
>rest of segment 1 before we see any references to segment 2, but if that's<br /> > the case then how did we get
intothe situation you reported? Or is it<br /> > just that it was a broken base backup to start with?<p
dir="ltr">Thescenario I could come up with that didn't require a broken base backup was that there was an earlier
truncateor vacuum. So the sequence is high offset reference, truncate, growth, crash. All possibly on a single
database.<pdir="ltr">It's possible we're better off not assuming we've thought of all possible ways this can happen
though.