Re: Hot standby & SR - log shipping required? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ray Stell
Subject Re: Hot standby & SR - log shipping required?
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Msg-id 47199759-75A6-4245-A825-48579BA82221@gmail.com
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In response to Hot standby & SR - log shipping required?  (Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>)
Responses Re: Hot standby & SR - log shipping required?  (Jov <amutu@amutu.com>)
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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.

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