Streaming-only Remastering

So currently we have a major limitation in binary replication, where it is not possible to "remaster" your system (that
is,designate the most caught-up standby as the new master) based on streaming replication only.  This is a major
limitationbecause the requirement to copy physical logs over scp (or similar methods), manage and expire them more than
doublesthe administrative overhead of managing replication.  This becomes even more of a problem if you're doing
cascadingreplication.
 

Therefore I think this is a high priority for 9.3.

As far as I can tell, the change required for remastering over streaming is relatively small; we just need to add a new
recordtype to the streaming protocol, and then start writing the timeline change to that.  Are there other steps
requiredwhich I'm not seeing?
 

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