On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >> I have one question. Do we support starting an archive recovery and >> standby server from a cold backup (not a base backup taken by online >> backup)? Though I think they would work and be very useful, I'm not >> sure they are safe. > > I don't see why not. We support that in PITR, streaming replication is > just another way of getting the logs to the server.
I thought that because, AFAIK, there is no document about initial startup of PITR from a cold backup. But I'd be happy if it's supported. After failover happens, previous primary server might be able to become standby from its old data without taking a new backup from new primary. 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
