Re: [v9.2] Start new timeline for PITR

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> The nice people at VMware, where I work, have come up with a small
> patch to allow PITR to create a new timeline.  This is useful in cases
> where you're using filesystem snapshots of $PGDATA which may be old.

Huh?  We already start a new timeline when doing a non-crash-recovery
replay scenario.

The code looks pretty confused too, which makes it difficult to
reverse-engineer what your point is.
        regards, tom lane