Re: A few nuances about specifying the timeline with START_REPLICATION

2021-06-18 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 18/06/2021 22:55, Jeff Davis wrote: On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 21:48 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 18/06/2021 20:27, Jeff Davis wrote: We could teach it to look into the timeline history to find the correct file, though. That's how recovery_target_timeline behaves, and it would match my in

Re: A few nuances about specifying the timeline with START_REPLICATION

2021-06-18 Thread Jeff Davis
On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 21:48 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 18/06/2021 20:27, Jeff Davis wrote: > We could teach it to look into the timeline history to find the > correct > file, though. That's how recovery_target_timeline behaves, and it would match my intuition better if START_REPLICATIO

Re: A few nuances about specifying the timeline with START_REPLICATION

2021-06-18 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 18/06/2021 20:27, Jeff Davis wrote: A few questions about this comment in walsender.c, originating in commit abfd192b1b5b: /* * Found the requested timeline in the history. Check that * requested startpoint is on that timeline in our history. * * This is quite loose on purpose. We onl