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From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: pg_rewind problem: cannot find WAL
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> 
> Any idea?
> Clearly, postgresql.auto.conf is within PGDATA, and since my
> recovery_command is there, one trick could be to touch and empty
> PGDATA/postgresql.conf, pg_rewind, remove the fake configurtion file.
> But I'm sure there is a smarter solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
> 
A symlink from $PGDATA to where actual file?