Keith Pierno <kpie...@lulu.com> writes:
> Thanks for the prompt response. If such a file is needed for recovery
> it was never created by postgres. The current archiving process creates
> uses rsync to archive the WAL files to a shared archive area. In the
> past and on my other cluster we do not see .history files on the
> primary server and have been able to recover without them.

The .history file would have been created on the slave at the time it
became new master (and started its own timeline).

                        regards, tom lane

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