Re: Strategies for validating WAL-shipping replication - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Strategies for validating WAL-shipping replication
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Msg-id 48FC3CAF.8010600@lelarge.info
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In response to Strategies for validating WAL-shipping replication  (Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>)
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Florian Weimer a écrit :
> We've set up WAL-shipping replication on one of our database servers,
> and the question is whether it runs correctly.  Is there an easy way
> to access some tables and see if the data matches (possibly in
> single-user mode)?
>

Nope. The only way you can look at data on a "on-recovery" server (the
log shipping slave) is to stop the recovery process.

> Stopping replication and starting the server for real on the replica
> means that we have to set up things from scratch, right?  (This is a
> bit annoying because of the amount of data which has to be copied from
> the master.)
>

Yes.


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