Thread: pg_rewind and replication slots

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Vladimir Borodin <root@simply.name> wrote:
> Should pg_rewind ignore pg_replslot dir at all? As it does pg_basebackup,
> for example.

To keep the code of pg_rewind simple, the decision has been made to
make pg_rewind copy everything, the necessary post-cleanup or
pre-process saving, like the target node's postgresql.conf that would
get overwritten, being at the charge of the upper application layer
calling pg_rewind.
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Michael