On 04/14/2015 02:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> writes:
>> To fix, whenever we switch to a new timeline, scan the data directory for
>> WAL segments on the old timeline, but with a higher segment number, and
>> remove them.
>
> 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.
- Heikki