Not sure I buy this, what about postmaster crashes and fast shutdown requests etc.
Yeah. I was thinking - incorrectly - that I couldn't use a latch during recovery.
Revision attached. There was a file missing from the patch too.
0003: There is a lot of documentation improvements here that are not related to failover slots or timeline following, it might be good idea to split those into separate patch as they are separately useful IMHO.
Yeah, probably worth doing. We'll see how this patch goes.