Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> The backup history file is a slightly bit quirky way of doing things and
> was designed when the transfer mechanism was file-based.
> Why don't we just write a new xlog record that contains the information
> we need?
Certainly not. The history file is, in the restore-from-archive case,
needed to *find* the xlog data.
However, it's not clear to me why SR should have any need for it.
It's not doing restore from archive.
regards, tom lane