Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If someone is sloppy about how they copy the WAL files around, >> they could temporarily have a truncated file. > > Can you explain the scenario you're concerned about in more > detail? If someone uses cp or scp to copy a WAL file from the pg_xlog directory to an archive directory, there will be a window of time where the file exists and is not complete. If you wait "a while" (that being a duration which could be highly variable, depending on the specifics of the environment and copy techniques used), the missing part of the file will materialize. -Kevin
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