Re: streamlined standby procedure - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: streamlined standby procedure
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Msg-id 7034.1139325537@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to streamlined standby procedure  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
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Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> writes:
> The procedure should be something similar to the one available today if
> you do it manually. The main difference would be that the standby
> postmaster should connect to the primary server, and get all table data
> and WAL record stream through normal data base connections...

This is pie-in-the-sky really.  A design like that would mean that the
master could *never* recycle WAL files, because it could never know when
some slave would pop up demanding a copy of ancient history.
        regards, tom lane


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