Re: Backup history file should be replicated in Streaming Replication? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 04:15 +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > It's needed to find the place where the backup stopped, so it defines
> > the safe stopping point. We could easily pass that info via WAL, when
> > streaming. It doesn't actually matter until we try to failover.
> 
> Right. And, it's also needed to cooperate with HS which begins accepting
> read-only queries after a recovery reaches that safe stopping point.

Agreed, hence my interest!

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com