David, > Let's imagine we're taking filesystem snapshots each day by whatever > means. We're also archiving xlogs, but only have space for 48 hours' > worth. Now we want to recover to 3 days ago, but there are no WALs > from that time, so we do a crash recovery from the filesystem > snapshot. Doing continuous archiving from this conflicts with the > existing WALs, which we solve by creating a new timeline.
How is this different from just changing the recovery_command? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
