From: | Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Mikael Krantz <mk(at)zigamorph(dot)se>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Re: BUG #4796: Recovery followed by backup creates unrecoverable WAL-file |
Date: | 2009-05-15 11:38:20 |
Message-ID: | 3f0b79eb0905150438k56814d74vd52a53a4e8e843a1@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi,
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> The probe in findNewestTimeLine() initialized to recovery target timeline +
> 1. It doesn't require history files for any old timelines to be present.
What if recovery_target_timeline = 'latest'? The unexpected (not latest)
recovery target timeline might be chosen when some timeline history
files don't exist.
> The
> purpose of findNewestTimeLine() is to ensure that if you e.g recover to a
> point in time in timeline 5, and there's already WAL files for timelines 6
> and 7 in the archive, we pick a unique timeline id.
When only the history file for timeline 6 is deleted, timeline 6 would be
assigned as the newest one *again* at the end of archive recovery.
Is this safe?
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
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