On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> Yeah, as you noticed, the documentation for streaming replication is
> currently non-existent. That obviously needs to be fixed. I think we
> need to move the existing sections around, and of course add a lot of
> documentation for the new streaming replication and hot standby specific
> stuff. I proposed a new layout here:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4B50A600.3090309@enterprisedb.com
The attached patch changes the layout according to your suggestion
(but with a small modification). Here is the new layout:
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Chapter 24. Backup and Restore
24.1. SQL Dump
24.1.1. Restoring the dump
24.1.2. Using pg_dumpall
24.1.3. Handling large databases
24.2. File System Level Backup
24.3. Continuous Archiving and Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
24.3.1. Setting up WAL archiving
24.3.2. Making a Base Backup
24.3.3. Recovering using a Continuous Archive Backup
24.3.4. Timelines
24.3.5. Tips and Examples
24.3.6. Caveats
24.4. Migration Between Releases
Chapter 25. High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication
25.1. Comparison of different solutions
25.2. File-based Log Shipping
25.2.1. Planning
25.2.2. Implementation
25.2.3. Record-based Log Shipping
25.3. Streaming Replication
25.3.1. Setup
25.3.2. Authentication
25.4. Failover
25.5. Hot Standby
25.5.1. User's Overview
25.5.2. Handling query conflicts
25.5.3. Administrator's Overview
25.5.4. Hot Standby Parameter Reference
25.5.5. Caveats
25.6. Incrementally Updated Backups
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I didn't change the content except adjusting the "sect" and
the "indexterm" tags to new chapter.
If this layout change will have been committed, I'll improve
the SR section.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center
