Hi, Heikki. Thanks for the comment! On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fujii Masao wrote: >> >> In the current Synch Rep patch, the standby cannot catch up with the >> primary which has a bigger timeline. > > That would only happen if you've performed an archive recovery in the > primary. If you've done PITR in the primary, I don't think there's any > guarantee that it's even possible to catch up the standby. The standby might > already have replayed a WAL file from an earlier timeline, that isn't part > of the history of the bigger timeline.
I assume the situation of making the standby (the original primary) catch up with the primary (the original standby) after failover. Since a timeline is incremented when a failover finishes archive recovery on a standby, the timelines differ between two servers. Regards, -- Fujii Masao NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION NTT Open Source Software Center -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
