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an online backup instead of performing one. pg_ctl can detect that by checking if recovery.conf exists. Backup label file is renamed away early in recovery, so the window where backup label exists during recovery is normally very small, but you can run into it e.g if restore_command is set incorrectly and the startup process never finds even the first WAL segment containing the checkpoint record to start recovery from. Fujii Masao with comments by me.
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