Re: [HACKERS] Re: BUG #4796: Recovery followed by backup creates unrecoverable WAL-file

Hi,

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> The probe in findNewestTimeLine() initialized to recovery target timeline +
> 1. It doesn't require history files for any old timelines to be present.

What if recovery_target_timeline = 'latest'? The unexpected (not latest)
recovery target timeline might be chosen when some timeline history
files don't exist.

> The
> purpose of findNewestTimeLine() is to ensure that if you e.g recover to a
> point in time in timeline 5, and there's already WAL files for timelines 6
> and 7 in the archive, we pick a unique timeline id.

When only the history file for timeline 6 is deleted, timeline 6 would be
assigned as the newest one *again* at the end of archive recovery.
Is this safe?

Regards,

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