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    Add -c/--restore-target-wal to pg_rewind · a7e8ece4
    Michael Paquier authored
    pg_rewind needs to copy from the source cluster to the target cluster a
    set of relation blocks changed from the previous checkpoint where WAL
    forked up to the end of WAL on the target.  Building this list of
    relation blocks requires a range of WAL segments that may not be present
    anymore on the target's pg_wal, causing pg_rewind to fail.  It is
    possible to work around this issue by copying manually the WAL segments
    needed but this may lead to some extra and actually useless work.
    
    This commit introduces a new option allowing pg_rewind to use a
    restore_command while doing the rewind by grabbing the parameter value
    of restore_command from the target cluster configuration.  This allows
    the rewind operation to be more reliable, so as only the WAL segments
    needed by the rewind are restored from the archives.
    
    In order to be able to do that, a new routine is added to src/common/ to
    allow frontend tools to restore files from archives using an
    already-built restore command.  This version is more simple than the
    backend equivalent as there is no need to handle the non-recovery case.
    
    Author: Alexey Kondratov
    Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Alexander
    Korotkov, Michael Paquier
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a3acff50-5a0d-9a2c-b3b2-ee36168955c1@postgrespro.ru
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