On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> You just shut down the old master and let the standby catch
> up (takas a few microseconds ;) ) before you promote it.
>
> After this you can start up the former master with recovery.conf
> and it will follow nicely.
No. When you shut down the old master, it might not have been
able to send all the WAL records to the standby. I have observed
this situation several times. So in your approach, new standby
might fail to catch up with the master nicely.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao