Re: pg9.6: no backup history file (*.backup) created on hot standby - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 03:23:47PM +0800, magodo wrote:
> Is this as expected?

Yes.

> If so, in which case should I do backup on primary and in which case
> should I do it on standby?

This depends on your use cases, sometimes you don't want to make the
production server, the primary use more CPU than necessary so you can
leverage the activity on a standby.
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Michael