Re: streamlined standby procedure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: streamlined standby procedure
Date: 2006-02-07 15:18:57
Message-ID: 7034.1139325537@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
> The procedure should be something similar to the one available today if
> you do it manually. The main difference would be that the standby
> postmaster should connect to the primary server, and get all table data
> and WAL record stream through normal data base connections...

This is pie-in-the-sky really. A design like that would mean that the
master could *never* recycle WAL files, because it could never know when
some slave would pop up demanding a copy of ancient history.

regards, tom lane

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