This option would only be applicable when the standby.signal file is used only for restoring a cluster for the purposes of establishing a standby replica.
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM, Euler Taveira<eu...@eulerto.com> wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2025, at 9:17 PM, Efrain J. Berdecia wrote: > *One-line Summary:* This new recovery_target_timeline option would > ensure that when rebuilding a replica cluster, the recovery stays in > the primary cluster's timeline making it fool proof and avoiding > recovery timeline inconsistencies. > Do you understand what the timeline is for? [1] You are proposing to implement exactly what it is protecting you from: overwrite previous archived WAL after a recovery. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-TIMELINES -- Euler Taveira EDBÂ https://www.enterprisedb.com/
