Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> *That* makes pg_standby obsolete, not streaming replication per se.
>> Setting standby_mode=on, with a valid restore_command using e.g 'cp' and
>> no connection info for walreceiver is more or less the same as using
>> pg_standby.
> I've yet to understand how the files in the archive get from the master
> to the slave in this case, or are you supposing in your example that the
> cp in the restore_command is targetting a shared disk setup or
> something?
pg_standby didn't address that detail, either.
regards, tom lane
