Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> On 04/14/2015 02:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Wait a minute. Didn't you just break PITR scenarios? The *entire point*
>> of the multiple-timeline mechanism is that you can start a new WAL history
>> from a point in the past without destroying WAL history after that point
>> on the old timeline.
> It deletes the files belonging to other timelines from pg_xlog only. The
> WAL archive is not touched.
How do we know those files are in the WAL archive?
regards, tom lane