Re: pgsql: Don't archive bogus recycled or preallocated files after timelin

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> On 04/14/2015 02:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Wait a minute.  Didn't you just break PITR scenarios?  The *entire point*
>> of the multiple-timeline mechanism is that you can start a new WAL history
>> from a point in the past without destroying WAL history after that point
>> on the old timeline.

> It deletes the files belonging to other timelines from pg_xlog only. The
> WAL archive is not touched.

How do we know those files are in the WAL archive?

            regards, tom lane