Re: Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Derrick Rice <derrick(dot)rice(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Yaroslav Tykhiy <yar(at)barnet(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby
Date: 2010-08-24 00:08:40
Message-ID: 16010.1282608520@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Derrick Rice <derrick(dot)rice(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Is it possible to interpret the requested file and ignore the timeline
> digits and provide a file from some other timeline? Or is the timeline mean
> more than just the file name?

Sounds dangerous as can be to me. The point of the timeline stuff is
that a particular range of WAL LSNs might contain different stuff in
different timelines.

regards, tom lane

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