Re: [v9.2] Start new timeline for PITR

On 6/9/11 4:51 PM, David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The nice people at VMware, where I work, have come up with a small
> patch to allow PITR to create a new timeline.  This is useful in cases
> where you're using filesystem snapshots of $PGDATA which may be old.
> 
> PFA a patch implementing and documenting same :)

Can you explain here in email what the specific goals and expected
behavior of the option are?

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