Re: how reliable is pg_rewind? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Paul Förster
Subject Re: how reliable is pg_rewind?
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Msg-id 81E7842B-EE4F-40B9-AA87-F896379E3255@gmail.com
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In response to Re: how reliable is pg_rewind?  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: how reliable is pg_rewind?  (Curt Kolovson <curt@kolovson.org>)
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Hi Curt, hi Michael,

> On 03. Aug, 2020, at 03:58, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:35:37AM -0700, Curt Kolovson wrote:
>> Any info on the reliability of pg_rewind and its limitations would be appreciated.
>
> FWIW, we use it in production to accelerate the redeployment of
> standbys in HA configuration for 4 years now in at least one product,
> and it is present in upstream for since 9.5, for 5 years now.  So the
> tool is rather baked at this stage of the game.

same here. We use it with Patroni in failover cluster setups for about 2-3 years now. It has not failed us yet.

Cheers,
Paul




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