On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 11:02 +0100, Pilar de Teodoro wrote:
> We have a very large database of 37TB and we had to promote our standby to 
> primary due to
> some disk failures. Now the issues are solved, we would like to make standby  
> the old primary
> from a copy of the new primary which is already in place.  Is it possible 
> without using pg_basebackup?

That's exactly what "pg_rewind" is for.  It is a fast version of 
"pg_basebackup" for exactly
that case.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com


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