Re: pg_rewind problem: cannot find WAL

Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>

To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com>

Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-05-08T14:04:09Z

Lists: pgsql-general

> 
> Any idea?
> Clearly, postgresql.auto.conf is within PGDATA, and since my
> recovery_command is there, one trick could be to touch and empty
> PGDATA/postgresql.conf, pg_rewind, remove the fake configurtion file.
> But I'm sure there is a smarter solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
> 
A symlink from $PGDATA to where actual file?