On Sep 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> [1] and one of the wiki
> articles [2] seem to indicate that you need to set up log-shipping as
> well as SR, whereas one of the wiki articles [2] indicates that
> log-shipping isn't required. I've followed [3] and it seems to work fine
> in initial trials; but I'm wondering if I'm missing something, or if I
> misunderstood [1] + [2] in the first place.
>
Streaming replication works fine without log shipping. The logs are a good idea
in case a pitr becomes required. I don't know why one would ever not write the
archives, but I have done so. I think it was some silly, temporary disk space issue
I had to work around.