Re: How should pg_standby get over the gap of timeline?

Fujii Masao wrote:
> In the current Synch Rep patch, the standby cannot catch up with the
> primary which has a bigger timeline.

That would only happen if you've performed an archive recovery in the 
primary. If you've done PITR in the primary, I don't think there's any 
guarantee that it's even possible to catch up the standby. The standby 
might already have replayed a WAL file from an earlier timeline, that 
isn't part of the history of the bigger timeline.

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