Re: walsummarizer can get stuck when switching timelines

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
Cc: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133(at)gmail(dot)com>, x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: walsummarizer can get stuck when switching timelines
Date: 2026-07-17 19:02:55
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZ7-CaTEfP8xN1B7ncB4r1y1FMhPtm5LdwVM3sek6wEug@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
> It's erroring out, but shouldn't it check for 000000020000000000000003
> before doing so? It wasn't removed, just renamed.

Actually, neither is the case. 000000010000000000000003 was not
archived. 000000020000000000000003 is a different file with partially
identical contents. But the fact that the existing error message here
is not quite right is not a problem this patch should be trying to
solve.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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