"Sebastian Reitenbach" <sebastia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The WAL files have names like this: > 00000001000000010000003C > I am wonder what the meaning of the two 1 in the filename is? The first one (the first 8 hex digits actually) are the current "timeline" number. The second one isn't very interesting, it's an artifact of the way that WAL file locations are converted to file names internally. > Are the WAL > file names counted up to FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ? > Then I'll run into problems anyways as these int number are too large to be > handled by bash. You definitely should not expect to convert the names to integers. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq