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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Felix Hamme <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #19432: recovery fails at invalid checkpoint record
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:07:51 +0100
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On Mon, 2026-03-16 at 14:56 +0100, Felix Hamme wrote:
> I'm tempted to use a restore_command which does cp for history files
> and mv for WAL files, to optimize performance and disk usage.
> An AI told me that a second restore attempt for the same WAL file
> could only happen if recovery is resumed after a crash.

Don't do that.  Make the restore_command idempotent.
Trying to optimize for storage space often causes problems elsewhere.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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