Mikael Krantz wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
Let's document that timeline files should not be deleted from the
archive iff there exists a base backup made during a lower numbered
timeline.

Or made during a higher numbered timeline which happens to start in a
WAL-file containing records from a lower numbered timeline...

That was the original issue you ran into. That has now been fixed by forcing an xlog switch at pg_start_backup(), so that you can't start a backup in a WAL file that contains records from a lower numbered timeline.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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