| From: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: Simplifying "standby mode" |
| Date: | 2006-09-12 20:14:53 |
| Message-ID: | 87sliwu9j6.fsf@enterprisedb.com |
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> My memory is lousy at the best of times, but when have we had a minor
>> release that would have broken this due to changed format? OTOH, the
>> Primary and Backup servers need the same config settings (e.g.
>> --enable-integer-datetimes), architecture, compiler, etc, do they not?
>> Probably working from an identical set of binaries would be ideal.
>
> Not often, which is why I mention the possibility of having
> interoperating minor release levels at all. If it was common, I'd just
> put a blanket warning on doing that.
I don't know that it's happened in the past but I wouldn't be surprised.
Consider that the bug being fixed in the point release may well be a bug in
WAL log formatting.
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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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