On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:43 AM, James Sewell <james.sew...@lisasoft.com>wrote:
> Hi again, > > I just realised I asked this question around a year ago (for a different > reason actually) and you answered me then! Amazing! > > Your answer then was: > > It works fine, only the server will not generate WAL while >> it is in recovery. As soon as you promote the standby, >> it will archive ist WALs. > > > Is this still correct? > Yes, it is. A slave will begin to archive WALs after getting promoted and dumping to a new timeline. > I'm still not sure why they wouldn't be archived on the slave, seen as > they show up in the directory? > WAL files are only replayed on a slave, not archived. Regards -- Michael
