Re: Switching timeline over streaming replication

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> Attached is a new version of the patch. I committed the refactoring
> of XLogPageRead() already, as that was a readability improvement
> even without this patch. All the reported issues should be fixed
> now, although I will continue testing this tomorrow. I added various
> checks that that the correct timeline is followed during recovery.
> minRecoveryPoint is now accompanied by a timeline ID, so that when
> we restart recovery, we check that we recover back to
> minRecoveryPoint along the same timeline as last time. Also, it now
> checks at beginning of recovery that the checkpoint record comes
> from the correct timeline. That fixes the problem that you reported
> above. I also adjusted the error messages on timeline history
> problems to be more clear.

Heikki,

I see Amit found a problem with this patch.  I assume you're going to
work a bit more on it and submit/commit another version.  I'm marking
this one Returned with Feedback.

Thanks.

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