On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:39 +0200, Frank Wittig wrote: > But I would say one can > rely on serial file names to increase steadily. The whole of the PostgreSQL recovery system relies upon that, so yes we can use that externally from the database also. There's a patch to 8.3 for the restore_command to be passed a %r parameter so you don't need to grovel in the control file. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com