Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Boszormenyi Zoltan
Subject Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby
Date
Msg-id 506C31AD.1070004@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Make pg_basebackup configure and start standby  (Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
2012-07-01 18:01 keltezéssel, Fujii Masao írta:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2012-07-01 17:38 keltezéssel, Fujii Masao írta:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> attached is a patch that does $SUBJECT.
>>>>
>>>> It's a usability enhancement, to take a backup, write
>>>> a minimalistic recovery.conf and start the streaming
>>>> standby in one go.
>>>>
>>>> Comments?
>>> Could you add the patch to the next CommitFest?
>>
>> I will.
>>
>>
>>> If the backup is taken from the standby server, the standby's
>>> recovery.conf
>>> is included in the backup. What happens in this case?
>>
>> As documented, the command line parameters of pg_basebackup
>> will be used for recovery.conf. So, the new standby will replicate
>> the previous one. Cascading replication works since 9.2.
> So pg_basebackup overwrites the recovery.conf which was backed up
> from the standby with the recovery.conf which was created by using
> the command line parameters of pg_basebackup?

Only if requested.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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