andy@andycc.net writes:
> Hi Tom,Thanks for this. Do you know why Postgres was asking for
> 00000001.history? Surely it would know by the presence of the
> backup_label file, and its contents that it needs to go straight for the
> xxxxxx.backup file, which should exist?
It still needs to worry about timelines. Feel free to study the logic
in xlog.c ...
regards, tom lane