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    Allow a streaming replication standby to follow a timeline switch. · abfd192b
    Heikki Linnakangas 提交于
    Before this patch, streaming replication would refuse to start replicating
    if the timeline in the primary doesn't exactly match the standby. The
    situation where it doesn't match is when you have a master, and two
    standbys, and you promote one of the standbys to become new master.
    Promoting bumps up the timeline ID, and after that bump, the other standby
    would refuse to continue.
    
    There's significantly more timeline related logic in streaming replication
    now. First of all, when a standby connects to primary, it will ask the
    primary for any timeline history files that are missing from the standby.
    The missing files are sent using a new replication command TIMELINE_HISTORY,
    and stored in standby's pg_xlog directory. Using the timeline history files,
    the standby can follow the latest timeline present in the primary
    (recovery_target_timeline='latest'), just as it can follow new timelines
    appearing in an archive directory.
    
    START_REPLICATION now takes a TIMELINE parameter, to specify exactly which
    timeline to stream WAL from. This allows the standby to request the primary
    to send over WAL that precedes the promotion. The replication protocol is
    changed slightly (in a backwards-compatible way although there's little hope
    of streaming replication working across major versions anyway), to allow
    replication to stop when the end of timeline reached, putting the walsender
    back into accepting a replication command.
    
    Many thanks to Amit Kapila for testing and reviewing various versions of
    this patch.
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