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Normally the set of partitions established when initially defining the

tableare not intended to remain static. It is common to want to

tableis not intended to remain static. It is common to want to

remove old partitions of data and periodically add new partitions for

new data. One of the most important advantages of partitioning is

precisely that it allows this otherwise painful task to be executed

copied from the WAL archive to the <filename>pg_wal</> directory, or

fetched on startup by configuring <filename>recovery.conf</>. The use of

<application>pg_rewind</> is not limited to failover, e.g., a standby

server can be promoted, run some write transactions, and thenrewinded

server can be promoted, run some write transactions, and thenrewound

to become a standby again.

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