Re: Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

Derrick Rice wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sorry, I don't know.  I think the timelines are only there for safety if
> > you have to fall back to the previous timeline, and to prevent timeline
> > mixing.
>
>
> Thanks for the helpful answers.
>
> Two follow up questions which, if they can be answered, will save some time
> before I go testing random theories.
>
> Is there a way to bump a database up a timeline version without specifying
> the exact timeline version of interest?  Apparently doing a rebase from a
> database which has incremented its own timeline from doing a recovery does
> at least this.
>
> Is it possible to interpret the requested file and ignore the timeline
> digits and provide a file from some other timeline?  Or is the timeline mean
> more than just the file name?

No idea. Sorry.

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