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Re: pg_standby / WAL archive-restore through system restarts



someone wrote:

>>> Can I shutdown Server B (backup/recovery postmaster) simply by  
>>> killing the postmaster and restart it back in recovery mode to  
>>> continue re-syncing where it left off?  Or does stopping Server B  
>>> while in recovery mode require any manual re-sync steps before it can 
>>> resume recovery?
>>
>> I think you'll need to redo the whole process : restore the full data  
>> backup, create the recovery.conf file, etc.

No, you don't.  The server can continue replaying files.

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