Re: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4796: Recovery followed by backup creates unrecoverable WAL-file

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 15:41 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:56 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > 
> >> There is no particular reason to send history files to the archive,
> >> since new ones are only ever generated at the end of an archive
> >> recovery.
> > 
> > It also clears up a long standing confusion between backup history files
> > and timeline history files. The backup history file(s) do need to go to
> > the archive, whereas the timeline file(s) do not.
> 
> (blush). Umm, and what is the distinction again? I thought they're the 
> same thing..

Some additional code refers to "backup history" files when it means
backup label files, which are then easily confused with the timeline
history files.

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