wal-e/wal-e — pull request #115 by fdr (2014-06-03 23:58:47+00:00)
Title: Implement parallelized, pipelined prefetching of WAL

This is intended to achieve a drastic performance increase in WAL
application in many situations.

This is done by using some temporary directories and daemonized
sub-processes, implement a prefetcher that can hopefully pipeline
downloading WAL to be applied while Postgres is performing other WAL
recovery.