On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at>wrote:
> Jeff Janes wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:25 AM, <mads.tand...@schneider-electric.com> > wrote: > >> I have a question about sync streaming replication. > >> > >> I have 2 postgresql 9.1 servers set up with streaming replication. On > the > >> master node the slave is configured as a synchronous standby. I've > verified > >> that pg_stat_replication shows sync_state = sync for the slave node. > >> > >> It all seems to work fine. But I have noticed that sometimes when I > restore > >> backups created by pg_dump. The slave node will disconnect with the > message > >> in the postgresql log: > > > > You cannot use pg_dump to set up a database for receiving streaming > replication. > > > > For that it must be a physical copy, not a logical copy which is what > pg_dump generates. > > I think you misunderstood - he restores a dump on > the *primary* and that makes replication fall over > because it cannot catch up. > Ah, I see. And the synchronization point doesn't help, because it only occurs at commit-time and if the dump is being loaded in a single transaction, then the transaction could last for several checkpoints. By the time it tries to synchronize, it is already too late. Cheers, Jeff