Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> writes: >> I'm not understanding the sequence difference well enough to comment >> here, but I think some people are currently playing tricks in their >> failover scripts with moving files directly to the pg_xlog of the server >> to be promoted. > > That's still perfectly ok. It's only if you have a diverged timeline > history, and you have files from one timeline in the archive and files from > another in pg_xlog that you'll see a difference. But in such a split > situation, it's quite arbitrary which timeline recovery will follow anyway, > I don't think anyone can sanely rely on either behavior.
Fair enough. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers