Re: Tracking latest timeline in standby mode

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> I finally got around to look at this. I wrote a patch to validate that the
>> TLI on xlog page header matches ThisTimeLineID during recovery, and noticed
>> quickly in testing that it doesn't catch all the cases I'd like to catch
>> :-(.
>
> The patch added into the CF hasn't solved this problem yet. Are you planning
> to solve it in 9.1? Or are you planning to just commit the patch for 9.1, and
> postpone the issue to 9.2 or later? I'm OK either way. Of course, the former
> is quite better, though.
>
> Anyway, you have to add the documentation about this feature.

This patch is erroneously marked Needs Review in the CommitFest
application, but I think really it's Waiting on Author, and has been
for a long time. I'm thinking we should push this out to 9.2.

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