On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: >> The nice people at VMware, where I work, have come up with a small >> patch to allow PITR to create a new timeline. This is useful in cases >> where you're using filesystem snapshots of $PGDATA which may be old. > > Huh? We already start a new timeline when doing a non-crash-recovery > replay scenario. > > The code looks pretty confused too, which makes it difficult to > reverse-engineer what your point is.
I am guessing that they are taking a filesystem snapshot, and then using that to fire up PG. So to PG it looks like a crash recovery, but they want a new timeline anyway. <waves hands> -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
