On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 04/22/2015 10:21 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> >> wrote: >>> For example, imagine that perform point-in-time recovery to WAL position >>> 0/1237E568, on timeline 1. That falls within segment >>> 000000010000000000000012. Then we end recovery, and switch to timeline 2. >>> After the switch, and some more WAL-logged actions, we'll have these >>> files >>> in pg_xlog: >>> >>> 000000010000000000000011 >>> 000000010000000000000012 >>> 000000020000000000000012 >>> 000000020000000000000013 >>> 000000020000000000000014 >> >> >> Is the 000000010000000000000012 file a "partial" segment of the sort >> you're proposing to no longer achive? > > If you did pure archive recovery, with no streaming replication involved, > then no. If it was created by streaming replication, and the replication had > not filled the whole segment yet, then yes, it would be a partial segment.
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