Re: Refactoring standby mode logic

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com> writes:
>> I'm not understanding the sequence difference well enough to comment
>> here, but I think some people are currently playing tricks in their
>> failover scripts with moving files directly to the pg_xlog of the server
>> to be promoted.
>
> That's still perfectly ok. It's only if you have a diverged timeline
> history, and you have files from one timeline in the archive and files from
> another in pg_xlog that you'll see a difference. But in such a split
> situation, it's quite arbitrary which timeline recovery will follow anyway,
> I don't think anyone can sanely rely on either behavior.

Fair enough.

Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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