Is there a way to let PostgreSQL restore but not create a new timeline

Question

I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4 and am creating a standby server. Since PostgreSQL 8.4 doesn't have built-in replication support, I did the following things try to get read only access to the standby server, and not to transfar full backup everyday.

• Set master to transfer WAL files to the standby server in postgresql.conf

  archive_mode = on  
  archive_command = 'scp -C %p standby:/var/lib/pgsql/backups/%f'
  

• create a recovery.conf on the standby server

  restore_command = 'mv /var/lib/pgsql/backups/%f %p'
  recovery_end_command = 'mv /var/lib/pgsql/data/recovery.{done,conf}'
  

• pg_ctl restart -m fast once a day

Then I realized that PostgreSQL did restore the transfered WAL files at the initial start up, but does not after a restart. I found the next message in the log file.

LOG: selected new timeline ID: 2

It seems that standby server is already on a new timeline, but master server is still sending old timeline's WAL file, which makes standby server not restoring.

So is there a way to make it possible to achieve what I'm trying to do?

Thanks.