Finding its origin as a fix for [pg_rewind] (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/app-pgrewind.html) where rewind process could fail if a file marked as listed in the source server was removed before fetching its data (see more details here, this could impact temporary files or relation file for example), here is a small feature of PostgreSQL 9.5 that may be useful for application developers:
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