Re: pg_xlogfile_name_offset() et al and recovery

Hello,

At Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:26:15 +0900, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote in <20160707(dot)172615(dot)232806225(dot)horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
> > As the result, this relaxation adds more good than bad and I
> > agree to this.
> >
> > Addition to that, I'd like to propose to add a description (or a
> > notice) about this restriction in documentation that the timeline
> > part of the file name may be wrong. Will post soon.

The following sentense will be added by this patch. Does it make sense?

| Note that these two functions use the timeline ID at the time
| to construct the file name. Therefore they give wrong names for
| transaction log locations on the other timelines. This can
| happen during runtime on replication standby when a promotion
| occurs on itself or upstreams.

regards,

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center