On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 11:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Well, for one thing, how do you add a new slave? If its configuration >>> comes from a system catalog, it seems that it has to already be >>> replicating before it knows what its configuration is. > >> At the moment, I'm not aware of any proposed parameters that need to be >> passed from master to standby, since that was one of the arguments for >> standby registration in the first place. > >> If that did occur, when the standby connects it would get told what >> parameters to use by the master as part of the handshake. It would have >> to work exactly that way with standby.conf on the master also. > > Um ... so how does this standby know what master to connect to, what > password to offer, etc? I don't think that "pass down parameters after > connecting" is likely to cover anything but a small subset of the > configuration problem.
Huh? We have that stuff already. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
