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Re: Making WAL archiving faster — multi-file support and async ideas

Alena Vinter <dlaaren8@gmail.com> — 2025-08-26T07:12:20Z

Hi Greg!

Thanks for your question — it made me take a closer look at the recovery
process. You're absolutely right, and I appreciate you pointing that out.
Postgres requests history files from the archive, which helps determine
whether to wait for the next segment or if the timeline is finished. If
Postgres detects that the segment isn't in the archive yet, it simply waits
for it to appear. Let me know if I’ve missed anything here.
Then I see no fundamental problem with the parallel archiver =)

Best wishes,
Alyona Vinter