Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>> We might also have written half a file many times. The files in pg_xlog
>>> are suspect whereas the files in the archive are not. If we have both we
>>> should prefer the archive.
> 
>> Yep.
> 
> Really?  That will result in a change in the longstanding behavior of
> ordinary recovery.

Really? Not as far as I can see. Recovery has always tried to restore
WAL files from archive first, falling back to the copy in pg_xlog only
if restore_command returns failure.

-- 
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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