>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 11:47 AM, in message <5332.1183135679@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > History files are only created when you do a PITR recovery that stops > short of the end of WAL (ie, you gave it an explicit stopping point > criterion). So basically they never appear except by manual > intervention on the primary server. A standby script should probably > handle requests for them by looking to see if they're available, and > returning 'em if so, but not waiting if they are not. > > Offhand I would recommend the same strategy for any requested filename > that's not a plain WAL segment file (ie, all hex digits). I suspect that it's worth waiting for something like this, too?: 000000010000000A000000CF.0000E744.backup
