Re: Add timeline to partial WAL segments

On 12/20/18 10:56 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:05 PM David Steele  wrote:
>> The question in my mind: is it safe to back-patch?
> 
> I cannot imagine it being a good idea to stick a behavioral change
> like this into a minor release.  Yeah, it lets people get out from
> under this problem a lot sooner, but it potentially breaks backup
> scripts even for people who were not suffering in the first place.  I
> don't think solving this problem for the people who have it is worth
> inflicting that kind of breakage on everybody.

Fair enough -- figured I would make an argument and see what people thought.

It's easy enough to solve on my end, but I'll wait and see what naming 
scheme we come up with.

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-David
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