Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when a

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 9618af7b2709f3a99c929de6854ad8c5964527d7
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2007-09-29T01:36:29Z
Releases: 8.1.11
Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when a
recovery stop time was used.  This avoids a corner-case risk of trying to
overwrite an existing archived copy of the last WAL segment, and seems
simpler and cleaner all around than the original definition.  Per example
from Jon Colverson and subsequent analysis by Simon.

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