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

Mikael Krantz wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Let's document that timeline files should not be deleted from the
>> archive iff there exists a base backup made during a lower numbered
>> timeline.
> 
> Or made during a higher numbered timeline which happens to start in a
> WAL-file containing records from a lower numbered timeline...

That was the original issue you ran into. That has now been fixed by 
forcing an xlog switch at pg_start_backup(), so that you can't start a 
backup in a WAL file that contains records from a lower numbered timeline.

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