Is there ever a reason why you would *not* want
recovery_target_timeline=latest in standby mode?
pg_basebackup -R doesn't set it. That seems suboptimal.
Perhaps this could be the default in standby mode, or even the implicit
default, ignoring the recovery_target_timeline setting altogether.
How could we make things simpler here?
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