Re: Mirroring with WAL? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Mirroring with WAL?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0110172012300.628-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Mirroring with WAL?  (Giles Constant <gilesc@hyperlink-interactive.co.uk>)
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Giles Constant writes:

> I've seen a lot of traffic around the developer lists about performing
> live backups by duplicating the WAL control files, but no examples of this
> actually working.

That's because it doesn't work.  There are no plans to make WAL into a
replication facility, for reasons which were discussed on the developer
lists as well.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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