Hi Hackers,
I have been using pg_rewind in production for 2 years. One of the things that I
noticed in pg_rewind is if it doesn't know what to do with a file "it copies".
I understand it's the more safer option. After all, the alternative,
pg_basebackup copies all the files from source to tar
I think this is a good improvement and also like the option (on pg_rewind) to
potentially send checkpoints to the source.
Personal anecdote. I was using stolon and frequently failing over. For sometime
the rewind was failing that it wasn't required. Only learnt that it's the
checkpoint on th
