Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 彭昱傑 wrote: >> Every time I restart postgre server, it generates a new history file: > That's strange -- it shouldn't happen ... sounds like you're causing a > crash each time you restart. Are you using immediate mode in shutdown > maybe? If so, don't; use fast mode instead. I'm confused by this report too. Plain crashes shouldn't result in forking a new timeline. To check, I tried "-m immediate", as well as "kill -9 postmaster", and neither of those resulted in a new .history file on restart. I wonder if the OP's restart process involves calling pg_resetxlog or something like that (which would be risky as heck). regards, tom lane