>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:47 AM, in message <5332(dot)1183135679(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> History files are only created when you do a PITR recovery that stops
> short of the end of WAL (ie, you gave it an explicit stopping point
> criterion). So basically they never appear except by manual
> intervention on the primary server. A standby script should probably
> handle requests for them by looking to see if they're available, and
> returning 'em if so, but not waiting if they are not.
>
> Offhand I would recommend the same strategy for any requested filename
> that's not a plain WAL segment file (ie, all hex digits).
I suspect that it's worth waiting for something like this, too?:
000000010000000A000000CF.0000E744.backup